Nobody wants to ask first, so let us answer it first. Online classical homeschool cost at Get Classically Educated is $1,377 for the full year with the Agenda, or $1,577 with Live Mentorship, at every stage. Books run about $50 to $150 on top, and you buy those yourself.
That is the whole answer. The rest of this post is the context you need to know whether that is a good number — including the costs that other programs do not put on the page.
What the $1,577 Live Mentorship plan includes
- Four live hours a week with a mentor who leads the discussion and tracks your student’s progress.
- The full 30–32 week curriculum, sequenced. Nothing for you to plan.
- Real science — research and hands-on experiments, not just reading about them.
- A small class. Twelve students maximum, so nobody hides.
- Mentor access between sessions.
Same price whether your student is in third grade or twelfth. Prefer to run the week yourself? The Independent Scholar plan ($1,377) gives you the full curriculum and weekly Agenda without the live classes.
| What you are paying for | Get Classically Educated |
|---|---|
| Independent Scholar (curriculum + weekly Agenda), any stage | $1,377 |
| Agenda + Live Mentorship, any stage | $1,577 |
| Per-course charges | None |
| Registration or enrollment fee | None |
| Co-op dues or campus fees | None |
| Books and materials | ~$50–150 (you buy them) |
| Honors Scholar (adds a second live day) | +$650 Grammar · +$750 Dialectic and Rhetoric |
| Typical all-in first year | $1,427–$1,527 Agenda · $1,627–$1,727 with Live Mentorship |
The costs nobody puts on the pricing page
When you compare homeschool programs, the sticker price is rarely the real price. Here is what to look for, because these are the line items that turn a $500 program into a $1,400 one:
- Per-subject or per-course pricing. A tuition figure that covers one class is not comparable to one that covers a full year of everything. Multiply before you compare.
- Registration and enrollment fees. Often annual, often per child, often not mentioned until checkout.
- Co-op dues, campus fees, or facility fees. Common in community-based models, and they scale with how many kids you have.
- Materials on top of materials. Some programs charge for a curriculum guide and require you to buy the books separately.
- Your driving. A weekly co-op forty minutes away is real money and a real morning, every week, for thirty weeks.
- Your hours. The model where you tutor the class yourself is cheaper on paper. It is not cheaper.
We priced flat specifically so you do not have to run that math. No per-course charges, no registration fee, no dues, and nothing that scales with how many subjects your student takes.
Is $1,577 a lot or a little?
Honestly, it depends what you are comparing it to.
Against a boxed curriculum you teach yourself, it is more. Boxed curricula are genuinely cheaper, and if you have the hours and the confidence to teach it, that is a legitimate choice we would not talk you out of.
Against a co-op or tutorial model where you pay per student per program and then drive there weekly, it is usually comparable or less once you have added the fees up — and you are not the one leading the class.
Against a full online private school, it is dramatically less. Those routinely run several thousand dollars a year per student.
The real question is not the number. It is what you are buying with it: about four hours a week where a mentor who is not you leads your child’s discussion, and a plan you did not have to build. If you have ever spent a Sunday night building next week from scratch, you already know what that is worth.
See the whole price list, and a real week
No form, no call required. Look at the tuition page and a sample week, then decide whether it is worth a conversation.
Florida families: check your scholarship eligibility first
If you are in Florida, you may not be paying full price at all. The Family Empowerment Scholarship (FES-EO, also called PEP) and the Personal Learning Scholarship Account (FES-UA) both cover approved educational expenses, and the Agenda may qualify, and live mentorship is optional and private pay. Confirm with your scholarship funding organization — we can give you whatever documentation they need. More detail in our guide to homeschooling in Florida.
What about math?
We do not offer math, and that is deliberate rather than a gap in the package. Math is the subject where families are most committed and most correct about what already works for their kid. So you keep your math program — Saxon, Beast Academy, Math-U-See, Teaching Textbooks, whatever is clicking — and we build literature, history, writing, logic, rhetoric and science around it. Budget for your math program separately.
The Honors Track, if your student wants more
Optional, and genuinely optional. An extra two-hour session each week for students ready to go deeper, added to the Live Mentorship plan as the Honors Scholar level, which adds a second live day for $650 more at Grammar and $750 more at Dialectic and Rhetoric. Most students do not need it. The ones who do tend to know who they are.
No surprises in January
Clear prices, published on the site, for the whole year. If a program will not tell you the price before a phone call, that is information too.
See the full breakdown on our tuition page, or look at what a week actually contains in The 4-Hour Homeschool Day.
Keep reading
- The 4-Hour Homeschool Day: What It Actually Looks Like
- Why Classical Education Produces Thinkers, Not Test-Takers
- The New Homeschooler’s Guide to Classical Curriculum
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