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Merit Scholarships
Attending Key School is a big decision, one that will positively impact your student’s entire future. We also understand it’s a significant financial investment for families. To ensure Key's top-tier education is accessible to all mission-appropriate students, Key offers both need-based financial aid and merit scholarships to actively recruit talented students who demonstrate extraordinary academic, athletic, artistic, and/or leadership promise.
Merit scholarships are available to new applicants to grades 6-12 and current students entering 9th grade. Awards range from $2,000 to $12,000. Students eligible for financial aid can receive a combination of merit and financial aid. These scholarships are not loans—they never have to be repaid.
Learn more about Key’s merit scholarships:
Future Innovator STEM Scholarship
Recognizing overall academic excellence while demonstrating advanced skills, innovative thinking, and a clear potential for future contributions in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics fields.
- Additional recommendation (required)
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Relevant academic portfolio (optional)
Key Founders Scholarship
Recognizing overall academic excellence with an emphasis on Humanities and World Languages, while also demonstrating the inquisitiveness and collaborative spirit that Key's founders aimed to foster.
- Relevant completed academic coursework (required)
Visual & Performing Arts Scholarship
Recognizing scholar-artists that positively impact the Key community through their creativity, talents and participation in the Visual and Performing Arts
- Additional recommendation (required)
- Relevant portfolio (required)
Zag Athletic Scholarship
Recognizing scholar-athletes who positively impact the Key community both on and off the field; priority going to multi-sport athletes.
- Additional recommendation (required)
- Relevant athletic highlights (optional)
Students will continue to receive the same level of merit scholarship annually through graduation as long as they are in good standing, as a student and community member, and active within their specific area of study or passion.
Selection Process
Scholarship recipients will be chosen after review by a Scholarship Committee comprised of administrators and admission staff. Recipients will be notified before admission decisions are issued in February.
Important Dates
2025-2026 Academic Year
| September 5, 2025 | 2026-2027 Applications Open Online |
| October 9, 2025 | Lower School Information Session |
| October 14, 2025 | Upper School Information Session |
| October 21, 2025 | Middle School Information Session |
| October 30, 2025 | Upper School Information Session |
| November 8, 2025 | First School Open House |
| December 12, 2025 | Upper School Shadow Day |
| December 15, 2025 | First & Lower School Application Forms Due |
| January 10, 2026 | Middle & Upper School Application Forms Due |
| January 10, 2026 | Financial Aid Forms Due |
| January 13, 2026 | Upper School Shadow Day |
| February 20, 2026 | Admission Decisions Released |