Tuition

Learn about our tuition rates, financial aid, and loan programs. As Lake Tahoe Preparatory School has a rolling admissions process, students are able to enroll throughout the school year.

2025-26 School Year
Nine-month Traditional Boarding Student Grades 9-12 without support services
August 17, 2025 – May 15, 2026
$70,000
Nine-month Boarding Student Grades 9-12 with academic support
August 17, 2025 – May 15, 2026

$81,000

Nine-month boarding Student Grades 9-12 with academic and counseling support
August 17, 2025 – May 15, 2026
$117,000

Nine-Month Traditional Boarding Student 

Nine-Month Tuition includes:

  • Educational services, room, board, meals,  standardized tests, science lab fees, music, and art fees.
  • Athletics and activities, field trips, and the Palisades season ski pass.
  • Local transportation, no-charge laundry machines, in-room refrigerators and personal safes, campus-wide Wi-Fi, student portraits, and yearbook, and formal dinners.
  • English Language Development courses for enrolling students for whom English is their second language. 

Tuition Does Not Include:

Medical fees; SAT, ACT, AP Exams, and TOEFL fees; Academic Learning Center; personal equipment; athletic uniforms; school laptop & textbooks ($1000), photography equipment; and transportation to Reno-Tahoe Airport  (RNO) $200 per person one way; the international student health insurance monthly premium.

Learning Support Center 

The Academic Learning Support Center provides educational support to students at with all skills levels. Services are available for subject-specific support, writing skills improvement, reading comprehension, test-taking strategies, time management, learning differences, executive functioning support, and study skills. The Learning Support Center also assists the students to facilitate peer or faculty tutoring, if needed.


Social-Emotional Support Counseling Center

Our Counseling Center offers support to students as life events occur, such as home sickness, anxiety, social difficulties, relationship difficulties and other challenges that are impacting a student's emotional health. Families will be provided with a monthly superbill to submit to insurance for reimbursement, upon request.

Interim Session & Summer School Sessions 2026
Interim School 2026 Session One
May 18– June 3, 2026
$6,000
Interim School 2026 Session One with Social-Emotional Support
May 18– June 3, 2026
$9,000
Interim School 2026 Session Two
June 4– June 19, 2026
$6,000
Interim School 2026 Session Two with Social-Emotional Support
June 4– June 19, 2026
$9,000
Summer School 2026  Session One
June 29 – July 17, 2026
$6,000

Summer School 2026  Session One with Social Emotional Support
June 29 – July 17, 2026

$9,000
Summer School 2026  Session Two
July 20 – August 7, 2026
$6,000
Summer School 2026  Session Two with Social-Emotional Support
July 20 – August 7, 2026
$9,000

Tuition includes:

  • Educational services, room & board, meals, textbooks, science lab fees and music/art fees.
  • Athletics and activities.
  • Local transportation, no-charge laundry machines, in-room refrigerators and personal safes, and campus-wide WiFi.

Tuition Does Not Include:

  • Medical fees
  • Transportation to-from Reno-Tahoe Airport (RNO).

Financial Aid

Lake Tahoe Preparatory School is pleased to offer financial aid, both need and merit-based.

To learn more about merit-based financial aid, contact our Admissions Office at [email protected].

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Loan Program

Families that would like to pay for a LTP education over a period of time can apply for our Student Loan Programs with Easy-to-Afford Monthly Payments. With a low, fixed-rate loan from “Your Tuition Solution”, a high school education is easier to finance. LTP has rolling enrollment, so your child may enter at any time summer or winter if space is available.

  • 100% Financing
  • 1.5 years to 7 years to repay
  • Low fixed rates-lower than personal bank loans
  • No prepayment penalty, for maximum flexibility
  • No down payment or application fees

To apply or learn more, visit www.yourtuitionsolution.com