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Small & Specialized Private Schools in the Tampa Bay region: 5 schools, each documented from its own website or a public program list. 3 of the 5 publish tuition; 2 publish days per week; 0 record a funding program with a named source.
Use the filters to narrow by the things that decide a school choice — funding program, grade band, area, and whether tuition is published at all. Where a school has not published a field, its listing says so and gives you the question and the admissions link instead of a guess.
Hub content last reviewed 2026-10-28.
Computed from the 5 listings on this page — our dataset, counted, not estimated.
Ranked by how much documentation the business itself publishes — the evidence we could check, not a judgement of the food or the kitchen.
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Doctors of Academics is a private Christian school for kindergarten through fifth grade with campuses in Tampa and Brandon, emphasising small class sizes, a low student-to-teacher …
1503 S US Hwy 301, Tampa, FL 33619 · (813) 856-9679
School-confirmed · last checked 2026-10-28
LiFT Academy is a Seminole private school for neurodiverse learners in grades K-12, publishing its 2026-2027 tuition on its own admissions page. Its handbook states that it accepts…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
The Waldorf School of Tampa Bay in Palm Harbor, founded in 1991, offers a Waldorf education from preschool through grade 8 blending academics, arts and nature, with a published enr…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Tampa Day School is an accredited, specialised private school in Tampa's Citrus Park area for students in grades 3-8 with mild learning differences such as dyslexia, ADHD and anxie…
Listed (public record) · last checked 2026-10-28
Paideia Classical Christian School of Tampa Bay is a classical Christian school in Tampa using the Trivium framework, progressing through grammar, dialectic and rhetoric stages to …
| Name | Evidence tier | School model | Grades served | Funding reported accepted | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctors of Academics Learning Academy | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5) | Step Up for Students - direct-pay provider (program not specified) | 2026-10-28 |
| LiFT Academy | School-confirmed | Private school - small / specialized | Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8), High school (grades 9–12) | Step Up for Students - FES-UA (Unique Abilities), Step Up for Students - FES-EO, Florida Tax Credit Scholarship (FTC) / AAA Scholarship | 2026-10-28 |
| The Waldorf School of Tampa Bay | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized, Forest / nature school | PreK, Kindergarten, Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8) | Step Up for Students - direct-pay provider (program not specified) | 2026-10-28 |
| Tampa Day School | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | Elementary (grades 1–5), Middle school (grades 6–8) | — | 2026-10-28 |
| Paideia Classical Christian School of Tampa Bay | Listed (public record) | Private school - small / specialized | — | — | 2026-10-28 |
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3 of 5 (60%). That share is typical for this market and is the reason every listing here shows its tuition state explicitly — published figure, or an honest gap with the admissions link — rather than hiding unpublished schools.
Step Up for Students - direct-pay provider (program not specified) (2), Step Up for Students - FES-UA (Unique Abilities) (1), Step Up for Students - FES-EO (1), counted from each school's own published pages or the program's public list — never from a school's advertising alone.
From the school's own description of its model, cross-checked against any network it belongs to. Categories describe structure — size, schedule, philosophy — never quality. This site does not rank schools; it publishes the decision data schools themselves put out, and marks the rest as gaps.
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