Best Pennsylvania Religiously Affiliated Private Schools (2024)

For the 2024 school year, there are 1,365 religiously affiliated private schools serving 208,623 students in Pennsylvania (62% of all schools).

The average tuition cost is $8,096, which is lower than the Pennsylvania private school average tuition cost of $12,207.

The most common religiously affiliated schools are Catholic (33% of schools), Amish (18% of schools) and Christian (15% of schools).

Cristo Rey Philadelphia High School Photo

St. Peter The Apostle School Photo - PK 3 and 4 year olds enjoy activities together!

Delaware Valley Friends School Photo - Delaware Valley Friends School is a national leader in the field of educating students (grades 1-12) with dyslexia, dysgraphia, executive function disorders, ADHD, and other learning differences located in the Philadelphia area.

Westtown School Photo - The Westtown School campus includes 600 acres of land, a 14-acre lake with a beach and boathouse, and an arboretum and natural forest.

Delone Catholic High School Photo - Delone Catholic Squires graduate prepared to lead, prepared to serve, and prepared for life as "Doers of the Word (James 1:22)."

Sophia Academy Photo - Field Trip to the Natural History Museum

St. Joseph The Worker School Photo - St. Joseph the Worker School students are superheroes of Catholic education.

Lancaster Mennonite School Photo - Lancaster Mennonite School is a private school for PreK-12th grade in Lancaster, PA providing a Christ-centered education.

Champion Christian School Photo - Soccer team huddle

Gwynedd-mercy Academy Continuation School Photo - Gwynedd-Mercy Academy has kept pace with developing technology by equipping our classrooms, library and computer lab with interactive whiteboards, wireless Internet and Microsoft Surface tablets, iPads and computer work stations. Technology is integrated across the curriculum and classroom devices are available for all students, enhancing individualized instruction.

Christian Life Academy of Early Learning Photo

Top Ranked Pennsylvania Private Schools by Religious Affiliation (2024)

Religious Affiliation

# Schools

# Students

% Minority

African Methodist Episcopal

94%

Amish

247

6,330

67%

Assembly of God

1,584

28%

Baptist

6,122

30%

Brethren

1,000

42%

Calvinist

653

36%

Catholic

453

127,617

22%

Christian

209

26,352

29%

Church of Christ

150

Church of God

77%

Church of God in Christ

100%

Church of the Nazarene

448

21%

Disciples of Christ

231

Episcopal

2,324

39%

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (formerly AELC, ALC, or LCA)

1,220

21%

Friends

7,170

29%

Greek Orthodox

107

Islamic

1,113

76%

Jewish

5,888

Lutheran Church Missouri Synod

1,082

21%

Mennonite

146

10,074

13%

Methodist

2,816

10%

Other

3,528

25%

Other Lutheran

223

Pentecostal

186

53%

Presbyterian

1,474

27%

Seventh Day Adventist

753

82%

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