The village's private schools include the Westchester Day School, a Jewish school, offering nursery through eighth grade; tuition averages $14,000.
At the area's one parochial school, the Roman Catholic St .Rita School, covering pre-k through the eighth grade, tuition is $240 a month for parishioners and $280 for others.
In past recessions, enrollments in independent schools remained stable, according to the National Association of Independent Schools, which represents 1,400 institutions with a median first-grade tuition last year of $14,640.
One of my friends prepaid her daughter's $18,000 second-grade tuition in return for a discount.
The Academy of St. Benedict also offers prekindergarten through eighth grade, with tuition and fees of $2,300.
Fairfield Country Day, a boys' school, teaches kindergarten through ninth grade; the tuition range is $23,900 to $25,500.
Both cover kindergarten through eighth grade, and tuition is about $1,700 a year.
Unquowa, whose enrollment this year is 175 students, teaches prekindergarten through eighth grade, and tuition ranges from $5,950 to $20,250.
There are 257 students from preschool through eighth grade, and tuition ranges from $22,900 to $27,200; last year, 140 2-year-olds applied for 20 spots.
It has a student body of 450 from nursery school through eighth grade, with tuition ranging from $10,000 a year for half-day nursery school for 3-year-olds to $16,000 for students in the fifth through eighth grades.
But when her son reached ninth grade and tuition went up, he was forced to drop out.
