Arizona Funding Finder

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The child

What grade is your child going into?

And how old are they?

A child must turn 5 by 1 January of the contract year to start kindergarten on an ESA.

Is this their first year of kindergarten?

Starting kindergarten is a qualifying route on its own — no public school history needed.

Is the family living in Arizona now?

School history

Where is your child enrolled right now?

Did they attend an Arizona public school last year, and for how long?

90 days is the number that unlocks the scholarship routes. 45 unlocks some older ESA categories. The 100-day figure circulating online is not Arizona law anywhere.

When did you move to Arizona?

Support and circumstances

Does your child have an IEP, a MET evaluation, or a 504 plan?

Has your child ever been in foster care in Arizona?

Qualifies for Lexie's Law on its own, with no disability and no income test.

Is anyone in the household active-duty military stationed here?

Money and current status

How many people are in the household?

Only used for the one program that has an income test.

Roughly what is the household income?

Say this out loud: this gates exactly one program. The ESA and both individual scholarship credits have no income test at all.

Do you have an ESA open right now?

And a scholarship award from a tuition organization?

These last two decide which half of the system she is in. Everything else follows from them.

When are you hoping to start?

What she qualifies for

The fork she has not been told about

These two paths cannot be held in the same year. The bar attaches to the signature, not the spending — so a family that signs an ESA agreement in November while holding scholarships is already in breach.

The ESA

Roughly $7,000 and up, in an account she controls. Spendable on far more than tuition. Costs her the district's duty to educate and her IDEA rights.

CANNOT
BOTH

The scholarships

Paid straight to a private school. Four programs that stack up to full tuition. Her IDEA rights stay where they are.

Nothing entered yet.Start anywhere in the interview. Results fill in as she talks, so you are both watching the same picture form.

Every figure carries the statute or agency page it came from and the date it was last checked. A dotted gold underline means the state has not published that number for the current year and the last published year is shown instead — say so out loud rather than reading it as fact. Rules checked 2026-09-02. Not legal or tax advice.