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What Happens When You Sponsor a Student?
Students Learn Unique Skills
Skills for Life
Providing financial aid has been part of the history of Pakachoag Music School, since the earliest days of the school. Requests for tuition assistance are always with us as is our desire to ensure access to the arts for all, regardless of background and circumstance.
Sponsor a Student gives the opportunity for donors to create immediate impact today. With your gift, 100% of every dollar goes directly to a child’s education.
Students from preschool through high school will have access to music and the arts, learning one-on-one skills they cannot learn elsewhere. A sponsored student is able to bond with a teacher, often over repeated years. This relationship can bring stability that is often not otherwise available to children and youth in need.
Is Their a Minimum Cost to Sponsor?
Because Sponsorship is tied to a student’s full tuition, our Sponsorship programs is tied to class and lesson tuition.
- Choose $220, which equals one Session for many of our classes.
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- Donate $600 to $1200 to sponsor a half or full year respectively of private lessons.
If you are looking for a lesser commitment, please consider our Music Matters program.
We’ll follow up for all pledges. Thank you!
Can You Tell Me More about Financial Aid?
- Every dollar donated as part of Sponsor a Student is directed to a specific student seeking support.
- The average aid package for a Private Instruction student at Pakachoag is $800
- 57% of aid recipients in 2018-2019 were non-white; 72% come from single parent homes
- The annual family income for a student receiving aid at Pakachoag was $27,000 in 2018-2019
- Each year, Pakachoag works to raise over $40,000 to support students in need.
Any family with an annual income below $65,000 can apply for financial aid. Amount awarded is tied directly to family income.
By joining the Sponsor A Student Program, your gift brings music into the life of a child—from preschool through age 18.