PreK to Grade 12 · Plano, Texas · Cognia accredited
An education your child will not have to choose between.
Cedarbrook is a full-time Islamic academy where the Quran and the transcript are held to the same standard. 480 students, twelve to a teacher, and every one of our 41 graduates last spring went on to a four-year program.
- Grades
- PreK to 12
- Tuition from
- $5,400
- Class size
- 12:1
- Next open house
- September 19
Cedarbrook by the numbers
Start here
Four things parents ask us first
You are comparing schools at night on your phone. Here are the answers you would otherwise have to call for.
What does it cost?
$5,400a year, PreK half day
Tuition runs from $5,400 for half-day PreK to $9,8005 for the upper school. Siblings come down 10% to 20%, and about 40%4 of our families receive need-based aid.
Will my child be ready for college?
All 41 graduates in the Class of 2026 were admitted to four-year programs, with an average SAT of 1,240. Fourteen AP courses and dual credit through Collin College sit inside the school day.
When do I need to apply?
Applications for 2027-28 open on October 1, 2026, and the priority deadline is December 15. Decisions go out to every family on March 1, on the same day.
Who will actually teach my child?
Twelve students to a teacher, and the average Cedarbrook teacher has been here nine years. Three of them are below, with their names and their credentials.
Find your child
Three schools inside one building
Three schools inside one building. You are shopping for one child at one age. Start where your child is now.
Upper School
Grades 9 to 12
- Fourteen AP courses and dual credit through Collin College, taken during the school day
- A full hifz track that runs alongside the college-prep transcript, not instead of it
- One counselor for every 32 seniors, starting in Grade 10 rather than in the fall of senior year
- Four years of math and science required rather than three, which is above the Texas minimum
- AP exams are sat in the gym in May, and the school pays for the first two
- Nothing is timetabled against Dhuhr, which is why the block after lunch runs fifty minutes and not an hour
Early Years
PreK and Kindergarten, ages 3 to 6
- Half day and full day PreK, capped at 14 children with two adults in the room
- Reading assessed individually in January so nobody coasts to Grade 1 behind
Lower and Middle
Grades 1 to 8
- Math streamed from Grade 6, so Algebra I is finished in Grade 8 for those ready
- Grade 3 is in Room 114, the one with the aquarium. The Grade 3s feed it.
Founded 2004
Why Cedarbrook exists
In 2004 a group of eleven families in Plano were driving their children forty minutes each way to a weekend program, and watching them arrive at high school having to pick: the strong math track or the hifz class. They started Cedarbrook so that nobody would have to make that choice at fourteen.
Twenty-two years later the arithmetic has not changed. A child gets one adolescence. If a school makes the deen the thing you fit around a transcript, the deen loses, quietly, over about four years. So we built the day the other way around. Dhuhr is on the master schedule before the academic blocks are. Arabic and Quran are streamed by level rather than by grade, so a strong memorizer is never held back and a struggling one is never left behind the room.
We are 480 students now, PreK through Grade 12, on eleven acres off Legacy Trail. We are not the largest Islamic school in North Texas and we are not trying to be. We are the one where you can find out what it costs without calling.
A full-time Islamic academy where the Quran and the transcript are held to the same standard.
Before you rule us out
What you are probably already paying
| What you pay for | Per year |
|---|---|
| Public school | $0 |
| Weekend Islamic school, two children | $1,400 |
| Private Quran tutor, twice a week | $2,600 |
| After-school care to 5:00 | $3,800 |
| Total | $7,800 |
| Cedarbrook, two children, all of it inside the school day | $15,240 |
The gap is smaller than most families expect, and the second column includes the drive.
A Tuesday at Cedarbrook
- 8:00
Arrival and open doors
Carpool line closes at 8:10. There is no bus and no plan for one. The office keeps a carpool list by zip code, and 75024 is the long one.
- 8:15
Morning halaqah
Fifteen minutes, by grade band, led by the division head.
- 8:45
Core academics
Math, English, science, social studies.
- 11:50
Dhuhr in congregation
The whole school, in the gym, every day.
- 12:15
Lunch and outdoor break
Forty-five minutes, outside when the weather allows. Hot lunch is $4.50 and halal, four days a week. Friday is bring your own, which is the day the two nut-free tables fill up.
- 1:00
Arabic and Quran
Two periods, streamed by level rather than by grade.
- 2:00
Core academics
Second academic block, plus electives in the upper school.
- 3:15
Dismissal
Athletics, robotics and clubs run until 5:00. Aftercare until 6:00 for PreK to Grade 5.
When would my child finish?
Every school will tell you its Quran program is strong. This tells you the year. Set your child's grade and what they already have, and the table runs to Grade 12.
Your child is in Grade 4 next year. The full hifz track begins in Grade 5, and at five juz’ a year that is 30 juz’ complete in Grade 10, with two years left for AP exams.
| Grade | Year | Juz’ by June |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 2027-28 | 0track starts Grade 5 |
| Grade 5 | 2028-29 | 5 |
| Grade 6 | 2029-30 | 10 |
| Grade 7 | 2030-31 | 15 |
| Grade 8 | 2031-32 | 20 |
| Grade 9 | 2032-33 | 25 |
| Grade 10 | 2033-34 | 30Complete |
| Grade 11 | 2034-35 | 30 |
| Grade 12 | 2035-36 | 30 |
The rates this uses
- Standard. Thirty minutes daily, begins Grade 2. Two juz’ every three years.
- Accelerated. One extra period, begins Grade 3. Two juz’ a year.
- Full hifz. Two periods daily plus about forty-five minutes at home, begins Grade 5. Five juz’ a year.
Rates are what we actually observe, not a promise. Children move between tracks and we re-place at the start of each year.
Who will teach your child
Who will teach your child · 12 students to a teacher
Ustadha Maryam Siddiqui
Head of Quran and Arabic
- Credential
- Ijazah in Hafs 'an 'Asim
- Years here
- 11 years at Cedarbrook
She teaches the first juz' the same way every year, and the method is not complicated. A child reads four lines aloud to her every morning, standing, before anything else happens. If the lines are not ready she does not scold, she hears them again the next morning. Parents who arrive expecting a gentle enrichment class are sometimes taken aback. The children who finish tend to be the ones who were described to us at intake as not memorizers. She keeps the list, going back to her first year here.
Dr. Nadia Rahman
Upper School Science
- Credential
- PhD Molecular Biology, UT Dallas
- Years here
- 8 years at Cedarbrook
Runs the Grade 11 research seminar. Two of hers placed regionally.
Mr. Yusuf Karim
Head of Middle School
- Credential
- M.Ed. Curriculum and Instruction
- Years here
- 14 years teaching, 9 at Cedarbrook
The one parents ask for when a child needs a hard year turned around. He teaches Grade 7 history as well, which he says is the easier half of the job.
Upcoming dates
Three dates worth putting in your phone.
September 19, 2026Saturday
Fall Open House
10:00am to 12:30pm. Classrooms open, faculty on hand, no registration needed. Come at any point.
November 7, 2026Saturday
Cedarbrook Quran Competition
Grades 3 to 12, hifz and tajweed divisions. Visiting families are welcome in the audience.
December 15, 2026Tuesday
Application priority deadline
The last day to be reviewed in the first round for the 2027-28 school year.
What it looked like afterward
I finished my hifz in Grade 10 and sat AP Calculus the same spring. Nobody at Cedarbrook treated those as competing priorities. I did not realize that was unusual until I got to college.
Alumni
In Grade 6 I would not read Arabic out loud. Ustadha Maryam made me do it every morning for a year anyway. I teach weekend school in Houston now and I use her exact method.
Parent
We moved from a Plano public magnet and I was braced for my son's math to slip. It did not. What changed is that he prays Dhuhr with forty other boys and never has to explain why he is leaving the room.
Accreditation
Reviewed and accredited by Cognia and CISNA. Member, Islamic Schools League of America.
Cognia
Accredited since 2009
CISNA
Council of Islamic Schools in North America
ISLA
Islamic Schools League of America
TAPPS
Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools
Come see a Tuesday morning.
Tours run Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:00. Thirty minutes, no obligation, and you will see actual classes rather than an empty building.
Notes
- 1.Class of 2026, 41 graduates. Two deferred a year and are counted in the year they enrolled.
- 2.School-reported, all 41 graduates sat the test. Cedarbrook does not superscore for this figure.
- 3.Homeroom ratio. Arabic and Quran periods run smaller, between 8 and 10.
- 4.2026-27 school year. The aid budget is set annually by the board and has not been fully allocated in any of the last four years.
- 5.The Grade 9 to 12 figure includes a $180 lab fee. It is inside the number rather than added to it, which is why it is not a separate line.
