The terms for using School & Steeple
Last updated November 8, 2026
By using SchoolAndSteeple.com you agree to these terms. If you use it for a school, you agree for that school and confirm you’re allowed to.
What School & Steeple is
A directory of Christian and Catholic K–12 schools that shows what a family pays after state school-choice funding. We are not a school, a state agency or part of any state program, and we don’t take part in any school’s admissions. Being listed is not an endorsement, and a school’s funding participation comes from the state’s official list, not from us.
The numbers on the site
Every number shows its source and date: tuition from the school, its website or what it reported to the state, and awards from the state program. We never estimate tuition; when we can’t source it, we say so. Still, tuition, fees, award amounts, eligibility and which schools take part change, sometimes after we last checked. Funding depends on eligibility, approval and available funds. Confirm the details with the school and the state program before you make a decision. Nothing here is financial, tax or legal advice. See Data and methods for how we calculate cost after funding.
For parents
- A tour request goes to the school you chose. The school decides whether and how to reply, and every admission and enrollment decision is between you and the school. We can’t promise a reply.
- Send requests only for your own family, with your real name and contact details.
- We only ask for your child’s grade. Please don’t send us a child’s name or birth date.
How we handle what you send is in our Privacy Policy.
For schools
- Claiming. Claim a listing only if you work for the school and may manage its public information. We verify claims by email, by phone or by hand, and we can remove access if a claim turns out to be wrong. Claiming and correcting a listing are free.
- What you post. You’re responsible for what you enter. Tuition must be your published rates for the school year you name. Accreditation shows as “reported by the school” until we confirm it with the accreditor. Changes to your name, address, city, ZIP or grades are requests that we check before they show.
- Photos. Upload only photos you have the right to publish, with whatever permission your school requires for the people in them, especially students.
- Permission to show it. You let us store, resize, format and display what you post on School & Steeple and in the seals and embeds we provide. You keep ownership of it.
- Our edits. We may correct formatting, decline changes we can’t verify, and remove anything inaccurate, unlawful, or not about your school.
- Families’ details. Use the contact details in a tour request only to answer that family about their request. Don’t add them to marketing lists without their consent, and don’t share them with anyone else.
- Seals. You may show the seals your school currently holds using the embed code we give you, unchanged. Seals are served from our site and stop showing on their own when your school no longer holds them.
Paid plans for schools
- Listed: $99 a month or $990 a year.
- Founding member: Listed for $49 a month or $490 a year, for the first 30 schools. The price stays the same for as long as that subscription stays active; if it ends, the founding price ends with it.
- Featured: top placement in city and tradition results, labeled “Featured”, for at most three schools per city, by arrangement.
- Plans are billed in advance through Stripe and renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel any time from your dashboard’s billing page: your plan stays on until the end of the period you’ve paid for, then your listing returns to the free tier. We don’t refund part of a period unless the law requires it.
- If a payment fails, Stripe tries again for a short time; if it still isn’t paid, your listing returns to the free tier.
- We’ll email you at least 30 days before a price change applies to your plan. Founding prices don’t change while the subscription stays active.
- Paying never changes a school’s tuition, funding or cost-after-funding numbers, and tour requests reach every school whatever its plan.
Using the site fairly
Please don’t:
- send false, automated or spam tour requests or claims, or pretend to be a school or a parent you aren’t;
- copy large parts of the site with automated tools, or put heavy load on it;
- try to get around our security, or into an account or dashboard that isn’t yours;
- upload anything unlawful, harmful or that you don’t have the right to share.
We may block requests or close access for anyone who does.
Our name and content
The School & Steeple name, mark, seals and site design are ours. School information that comes from government sources stays public information. You’re welcome to link to any page.
No guarantees, and limits
We work to keep every listing accurate and current, but the site is provided “as is”, without guarantees that it’s complete, error-free or always available. To the extent the law allows, School & Steeple isn’t responsible for indirect or consequential losses, such as a lost opportunity or a decision made from a listing, and our total responsibility to you for any claim is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before it, or $100 if you haven’t paid us anything. Some places don’t allow these limits, so they may not apply to you.
Changes to these terms
When we change these terms we update the date at the top. Schools with an account get an email about changes that affect them. Using the site after a change means you accept the new terms.
Contact us
Reply to any email you’ve had from School & Steeple and it reaches us. We read every message.