About this record.

Jewish day-school tuition is the Orthodox community's single largest non-mortgage expenditure, and the single least transparent one. Families pay tens of thousands of dollars per child per year, while schools refuse to publish their real pricing, refuse to explain discrepancies between communities, and refuse to say where the money goes.

This site exists for one reason: so parents can stop guessing. If your neighbour pays half what you do for the same grade at the same school, you should be allowed to know that.

“Halevay every school would be so transparent and communicative.”

Kosher Money podcast

For each submission, we record exactly seven pieces of information.

1. 1.
   School

   From a known list. New schools are added by admins after a submission references them.
2. 2.
   Grade(s)

   K through 12, plus Year 1 through Year 4 for Beis Medrash and Seminary.
3. 3.
   Children at this school

   A single integer.
4. 4.
   Sticker tuition

   The school's published number, per child per year.
5. 5.
   Actual paid

   What the family wrote checks for, net of scholarships.
6. 6.
   Household income bracket

   One of five bands. Never an exact figure.
7. 7.
   Academic year

   Which school year this submission is for.

• No name
  There is no name field anywhere on this site.
• No email
  No login, newsletter, or password.
• No IP
  One-way hashed at the edge, retained 24h, then discarded.
• No free text
  No comment boxes. No way for identifying detail to leak.
• No exact income
  Only one of five brackets, narrowest of which spans $75K.
• No third parties
  No analytics. No ads. No share widgets.

Each school page leads with aggregate statistics: median paid, median discount, per-bracket breakdown. Visitors who want every entry can switch to the “All submissions” tab.

A privacy floor of five submissionsis enforced: any school or bracket with fewer than five approved entries shows a holding banner rather than figures, so no single household's number can be reverse-identified.

Submissions are self-reportedand not audited against school records. We rely on the community's integrity and on a human reviewer to filter out facially implausible entries. We cannot verify what any parent actually paid.

Samples for most schools are small. Households who feel their pricing is unfair are more likely to submit than households who feel content; the dataset will lean toward the former. Read medians as a directional signal, not a precise ledger.