Financial Aid & Tuition Support
Ensuring access to recovery-focused education for every student who needs Archway.
A Commitment to Accessibility
Archway Academy believes that finances should never be a barrier to recovery or education.
We offer need-based financial aid, scholarships, and flexible tuition support to ensure students can fully engage in both their academics and their recovery journey.
How Our Financial Aid Program Works
Archway Academy provides assistance based on a family’s financial need and circumstances, including the unique expenses associated with recovery such as therapy, IOP, APGs, psychiatry, and other services.
Our process is Transparent – families clearly see what aid is available & Confidential – all applications are processed with sensitivity and privacy.
Factors We Consider
To support students equitably and responsibly, our financial aid committee looks at a family’s overall financial picture, including household income and obligations, out-of-pocket recovery expenses such as IOP, therapy, APGs, psychiatry, and any recent challenges like job loss, medical bills, or other unexpected hardships.
We also take into account factors such as transportation to ensure each family’s unique circumstances are fully understood.
A Commitment to Accessibility
Archway Academy believes that finances should never be a barrier to recovery or education.
We offer need-based financial aid, scholarships, and flexible tuition support to ensure students can fully engage in both their academics and their recovery journey.
How Our Financial Aid Program Works
Archway Academy provides assistance based on a family’s financial need and circumstances, including the unique expenses associated with recovery such as therapy, IOP, APGs, psychiatry, and other services.
Our process is Transparent – families clearly see what aid is available & Confidential – all applications are processed with sensitivity and privacy.
Factors We Consider
To support students equitably and responsibly, our financial aid committee looks at a family’s overall financial picture, including household income and obligations, out-of-pocket recovery expenses such as IOP, therapy, APGs, psychiatry, and any recent challenges like job loss, medical bills, or other unexpected hardships.
We also take into account factors such as transportation to ensure each family’s unique circumstances are fully understood.
Ready to apply for assistance?
Family Application Guide
This guide will walk you through step-by-step through the Clarity application for the 2026 – 2027 school year.
Family Support Contact Information
All available in English and Spanish. The application itself is also fully translated into Spanish using the drop-down in the lower left corner.
- In-app support through the “Help” button in the lower left corner
- Email support at support@clarityapp.com
- Phone support at 206-210-3752
More resources for families applying for financial aid:
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the most common questions families ask during the financial aid process.
First Time Clarity Applicant Questions:
A: Clarity offers a streamlined, mobile friendly application that can be completed in as short as 30 minutes. Additionally, Clarity removes the need to upload your personal tax return(s) and W2(s)by transferring them directly from the IRS. This saves you time so that you aren’t pulling out all of your tax returns and transposing numbers from the returns into the application. It is also more secure because you are not uploading copies of original documents, needing to redact the SSNs, and those copies or PDFs are not sitting unsecured on your desktop or in a folder on your computer, or in an email server, etc.
A: Yes, you will need to submit a Clarity application each year as part of the school’s standard financial aid process. Clarity retains your demographic information from previous applications, so it will be even easier to reapply.
A: Yes! Clarity’s application is fully mobile-friendly so you have access wherever you are.
A: Clarity takes privacy and security of your personal information seriously. Clarity is certified for both GDPR and SOC2 and uses enterprise-level security standards including end-to-end encryption of all personally identifiable information. For more information, please refer to Clarity’s Privacy Policy.
Enhanced Tax Verification Questions:
A: Both options will retrieve your tax returns from the IRS, and both require an identity verification step. Families who select the Clarity pathway will sign a tax request form (PDF) that is transmitted to the IRS for a human at the IRS to approve. This process can take 3-5 business days for verification. Families who select the IRS pathway will log into their IRS.gov account to sign and submit the tax authorization electronically. This process leads to verification in less than 24 hours.
A: There isn’t a way to bypass this part of the process.
Clarity utilizes IRS forms to securely obtain digital transcripts (not originals or copies) of your W2 and 1040 filings. These are standard forms used across the financial industry. If you’ve ever applied for a mortgage, refinanced, gotten a car loan, or any other personal loan, you likely filled out a similar form as part of that application. These are standard forms that those companies will use to determine what size loan you qualify for by retrieving transcripts of your most recent tax filing information. In fact, if you plan to use the FAFSA to apply for college financial aid, they will also ask you to complete these forms to obtain your tax transcripts just like Clarity does.
Clarity provides the forms in a secure docusign format where you’ll enter your SSN (this is completely masked and is only visible to you and the IRS), confirm your address and name are accurate, and then e-sign. The form then goes directly to the IRS, which then processes the request and provides the data and transcripts to Clarity within your application file. This saves you time so that you aren’t pulling out all of your tax returns and transposing numbers from the returns into the application. It is also more secure because you are not uploading copies of original documents, so those copies or PDFs are not sitting on your desktop or in a folder on your computer, or in an email server, or at the school office, etc.
Clarity is both SOC2 and GDPR compliant, which are gold standards for cybersecurity, and we are voluntarily audited on our security protocols by an independent assessor twice per year.
A: In both the IRS or Clarity pathways, families will provide authorization and consent for Clarity to retrieve their 2024 tax documents (1040 and W2) and share them with the schools on their application. Additionally, families will provide authorization (but not consent) for Clarity to retrieve their 2025, 2026, and 2027 tax documents (1040 and W2). The reason Clarity requests this advanced authorization is that it will allow Clarity to instantaneously retrieve and share future year tax documents with schools upon a family’s re-application in those future years.
Identity Verification Questions:
A: Identity verification is a one-time process where a parent/guardian uploads a picture of a government-issued photo ID and takes a selfie photo to verify their identity. Parents/guardians can complete this process from within the financial aid application, or have a link texted to their mobile device to complete it there.
A: All parents/guardians who are US taxpayers are required to provide tax documents through Clarity’s new IRS integration, and will be prompted to complete the one-time identity verification process.
A: Clarity takes safeguarding your personal data incredibly seriously and goes through annual SOC2 audits as well as engages in annual penetration testing. Additionally, all of the data collected during the identity verification process is stored in an encrypted database and will only be accessed in the event of an audit by the IRS.
A: The identity verification process is something that the IRS requires of all US taxpayers in order to authorize the sharing of tax transcripts. There is no way around it, but it’s a one time process, which means that once parents/guardians do it this year, they won’t have to do it again in the future.
Ready to Apply?
We’re here to help guide your family through this process with compassion and transparency.
Please contact the Archway office at 713.328.0780 if you have any questions.