MARQUETTE, Mich. (WZMQ) – The Marquette Area Public School Board held it’s monthly meeting Monday evening in the High School Library. With this being the last board meeting before classes begin, several items were discussed including an update on the 5 year post-pandemic instructional plans, meeting the student’s overall hierarchy of needs, infrastructure projects and setting the rate for tuition for certain non-resident students. Schools superintendent Zack Sedgwick says the rates are set by state guidelines, but very few students are ever required to pay this tuition.
“It is a formality. Those rates are set by the state, and we follow the state’s guidelines to set those tuition rates, it’s pretty rare, but every once in a while, you do have a student that’s here as a nonresident student, that is, that would have to pay tuition,” said Sedgwick.
The school board set the rate for non-resident elementary school at just over $14,000 per pupil, per school year, and $14,880 for grades 8 through 12. School starts on September Third.
