The Annual Fund bridges the gap between tuition and the actual cost to educate a Priory student. The Annual Fund allows Priory to maintain the highest quality college preparatory program, while keeping tuition levels competitive with other area schools and accessible to more families, thereby allowing us to recruit the most qualified students regardless of financial ability. Annual Giving is one of the most important fundraising programs at Saint Louis Priory School. Contributions help the School meet recurring operating expenses not covered by tuition, fees or endowment income.

Building on the Promise is a $10 million campaign that has made a quick and impressive impact on the landscape of our facilities. In order to maintain an appropriate and competitive student to teacher ratio, set sizes will be reduced to a maximum of 20 students in the Junior School and 18 in the high school. To ensure that our enrollment remains at its current level, 7th grade classes will have four sets – increasing the class by eight students. The addition of a fourth set creates the following needs:

Endowment is an important element of the financial picture in private-independent schools. The endowment provides additional and permanent annual resources to maintain and improve the quality of education that the school provides its students. The endowment should be considered an investment that will have the most impact for succeeding generations of students rather than the present generation. Our current endowment campaign, Keeping the Promise, has a $20 million goal.

The Monastic Fund supports two vital areas of monastic day-to-day operations:  supporting our infirm monks, whose life-long dedication to the Abbey family deserves the very best care, and funding the educational training of our young monks, who are the future of the Abbey and its works.