BOOST, From page 1 half of the $7,099 tuition at the school. She said the program was approved late in the year, leaving limited time for the school to advertise to the community.

The school got $21,400 in state aid from the state program, which is the secondlargest grant to a private school in Anne Arundel County this school year. St. Philip Neri School in Linthicum received the highest grant amount: $21,800.

Cox said school staff advertised on its social media pages, which mostly reached students already enrolled. They also put up ads in churches, including ads printed in Spanish. The majority of the new students that got state aid to attend the school were Hispanic, she noted. “For the new ones that came to the school,” Cox said, “they really needed that money to come here.” chuang@capgaznews.com www.Twitter.com/ChuangCapGaz