False River Academy

LA GATOR and False River Academy

On the state's 2025-26 BESE approval list, False River Academy appears as accredited. Approved schools can accept LA GATOR tuition once they register in the Odyssey platform for the year. Its federal Brumfield v. Dodd nondiscrimination approval dates to 1985.

The state doesn't publish which approved schools registered with LA GATOR each year (statewide, more than 240 took part in the first year), so ask the office whether it is set up for 2026-27 and how it bills the account.

The school reported 314 K-12 students and 28 pre-K students on that list. That ranks #27 of 69 approved schools in our ten-parish directory by K-12 enrollment.

False River Academy was also on the state's 2024-25 Tuition Donation Credit participating list, so it accepts scholarships from Louisiana's school tuition organizations (ACE Scholarships, Arete Scholars, Aspiring Scholars and Son of a Saint). Those scholarships stack with LA GATOR: the account pays tuition and mandatory fees first, and an STO award can cover the rest, up to actual tuition and fees.

Because enough of its students came through the former Louisiana Scholarship Program, the state calculated a 2025 Scholarship Cohort Index for the school: 35.8, with a K-8 assessment index of 21.1 and a progress index of 62.8. The index is built like a public school performance score and covers only scholarship students who took state tests.

In the federal Private School Survey (2023-24), it reported 294 students, 30.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and about 9.7 students per teacher.

From kindergarten through grade 12 is 13 school years. At 2026-27 amounts, a student funded every year here would bring about $68,159 at the standard amount, or $99,138 at the 250%-of-poverty amount. Amounts are set each year and new awards depend on funding, so treat this as a planning number. LA GATOR starts at age 5, so pre-K years are paid privately.

Paying the balance

Independent schools set their own need-based aid. Ask whether LA GATOR is counted before or after aid is calculated.

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Questions to ask the school

1. Are you registered as a participating LA GATOR school in Odyssey for 2026-27, and how do you bill the account?
2. What is the full cost for my child's grade, including mandatory fees, and what's left after the account?
3. Do you accept STO scholarships (ACE, Arete, Aspiring Scholars, Son of a Saint), and in what order do you apply them?
4. Which state test or national norm-referenced test do LA GATOR students take here?
5. Which dual-enrollment courses do you offer, and can those fees come from the account?
6. Does a pre-K seat here carry into kindergarten, when LA GATOR starts?

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