| K | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42 | 23 | 40 | 24 | 32 | 29 | 36 | 29 | 41 |
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25 school year, as reported to the WA State Board of Education.
Source: the school's own tuition page · aid page, observed 2026-07-03. Tuition changes annually, verify before applying.
NCES Private School Universe Survey, 2021-22 (the most recent federal collection). Private-school demographics are reported biennially and lag public-school data.
Independent school in Laurelhurst, Seattle · preschool through grade 8 · 296 K-8 students plus 58 preschoolers (Washington State Board of Education, 2024-25) · coed, Catholic-heritage (Cabrinian) but independently governed · accredited by the Northwest Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS)
Villa Academy sells something no other Seattle PK-8 quite does: a 31-acre campus with forest, gardens, and Lake Washington shoreline, wrapped around a progressive, inquiry-driven program that keeps a Catholic saint's name on the door while roughly half its families practice no faith at all. Since a parent consortium rescued the school from closure in 1977, it has answered to its own board rather than the Archdiocese. What you get is character-and-service Catholicism, not catechism. The trade-offs are equally specific. Middle school tuition of $38,400 (2025-26) plus a stack of mandatory extras lands near the top of the regional PK-8 market, the school runs no bus of any kind, and the campus sits on a traffic-bound peninsula that punishes commutes from anywhere but northeast Seattle. For the right family, Villa earns the money back with an 8.4-to-1 student-teacher ratio, a genuinely engineered middle-school on-ramp, free after-school care for middle schoolers, and 8th graders who fan out to both Lakeside-tier secular schools and the Catholic prep circuit.
Researched 2026-07-04. Citations and claim ledger included in the full dossier.
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