How much does a private tutor cost for an elementary school child?

It depends on where you live, the subject and the tutor's experience. Superprof's 2025 guide to US rates puts one-to-one tutoring at roughly $20–$80 an hour and online tutoring at $15–$50, with in-person sessions often 20–30% more than online.

Can we use a private tutor and Maya together?

Yes. The tutor builds the plan, checks written work and sees your child in person; Maya helps them go over the material on the evenings in between.

Is it safe to leave a child alone with a tutor on a screen?

Maya does not ask a child for an email, a precise location or a friend list, has no chat between children and shows no ads in the lesson. A parent confirms by email before the tutoring features work, and the parent screen lets you pause and delete. Even so, a language model can make mistakes, so look over what your child learned now and then.

Is Maya suitable for a child with ADHD or a learning difficulty?

Maya does not assess children and does not replace therapy or specialist teaching. She does explain again without tiring and asks one question at a time, answered by tapping. If a professional has made a recommendation, follow it first.

Maya Tutor or a private tutor: which does your child need?

If your child needs an assessment, specialist support, exam preparation or an adult beside them checking written work, a human private tutor is the right choice. If your child is in grades 1–6 and mostly needs regular practice on what they learned at school today, with an explanation of why the wrong answer was tempting, Maya Tutor can do that every evening, and the first lesson is free.

Updated September 24, 2026 · Maya Tutor

What is the actual difference between a private tutor and Maya?

A private tutor is a person who comes to your home, or joins a video call, once or twice a week at a set time. They see the notebook, hear the child's tone of voice, can sit with handwriting or a piece of writing, and talk to you and sometimes to the class teacher.

Maya is a tutor on a screen, in a browser or on an iPhone. Your child tells her what they learned today, by voice, by typing or with a photo of the page, and she teaches it with them, asking questions they answer by tapping. When an answer is wrong she does not say try again; she explains why that particular answer was tempting.

An example from grade 4: a child adds 1/4 + 1/4 and gets 2/8. Maya shows that they added the tops and the bottoms, why that feels logical, and then goes back to a quarter of a pizza plus another quarter. What did not land is kept, and she comes back to it in the next lesson.

How do they compare, line by line?

Tutor prices below come from Superprof's guide to US tutoring rates, opened on 24 September 2026. What you pay depends on where you live, the subject and the tutor's experience.

Option	Ages	Subjects	Languages	How it teaches	Price	Where it is better
Private tutor, in person	Any age	Whatever the tutor teaches	The tutor's	Face to face at a set time, with pencil and notebook	About $20–$80 an hour one-to-one; in person often 20–30% more than online	Assessment, specialist support, exams, writing, a child who needs an adult beside them
Private tutor, online	Any age	Whatever the tutor teaches	The tutor's	Video call at a set time	About $15–$50 an hour	The same needs at a lower cost, for a child who can focus on video
Maya Tutor	Grades 1–6 (ages 6–12); material up to grade 10	Math, English, science, Hebrew, world studies	English, Hebrew and nine more interface languages	The child says what they learned, answers by tapping, hears why the wrong answer was tempting; Maya returns to what did not land	First lesson free, no card needed	Everyday practice of what was taught in class, between tutor sessions or instead of them

When is a private tutor the better choice?

There are cases where a tutor on a screen is not the answer, and it is worth saying so plainly:

A child with a diagnosed learning difficulty who needs specialist teaching. Maya is patient and will explain again as often as needed, but she does not assess a child or build an intervention plan.
Exam preparation in middle school and high school. Maya was built for grades 1–6, and her material stops at grade 10.
Writing: essays, handwriting or a full worked solution in a notebook. Maya's questions are answered by tapping, so she does not check written work.
Spoken conversation practice in English. Her English lessons are tap-to-answer questions about words and sentence patterns, not open conversation.
A child who will not start without an adult beside them, or whose difficulty is more emotional than academic.
A family that needs a specific national syllabus followed closely. Maya's catalog was written in Israel and some lessons use Israeli money and places, so a local tutor will know your school's syllabus better.

When is Maya enough, or even easier?

When the difficulty is specific and comes from class: your child comes home with multiplication that did not click (4 × 3 = 7 is a common one), or There are a chair instead of There is a chair. They need another explanation that evening, not in six days, and Maya builds the lesson around what was taught today.

When your child is embarrassed to ask again. With Maya they can get it wrong as many times as they need, and nobody is waiting.

And when there is already a tutor: Maya can be the practice between sessions, so the tutor's time starts with what is still open instead of a recap.

What should you ask yourself before deciding?

Four questions worth answering before you book a tutor or open an account:

Is the difficulty one topic, or the whole subject? One topic suits focused practice; a wide gap needs a tutor's plan.
Has the teacher or school suggested an assessment? If so, the assessment comes before any tool.
How many times a week does your child need to practise for it to stick? One weekly session is not always enough for that.
Can your child work on a screen alone? In grade 1, sit next to them at first.

Questions parents ask

How much does a private tutor cost for an elementary school child?: It depends on where you live, the subject and the tutor's experience. Superprof's 2025 guide to US rates puts one-to-one tutoring at roughly $20–$80 an hour and online tutoring at $15–$50, with in-person sessions often 20–30% more than online.
Can we use a private tutor and Maya together?: Yes. The tutor builds the plan, checks written work and sees your child in person; Maya helps them go over the material on the evenings in between.
Is it safe to leave a child alone with a tutor on a screen?: Maya does not ask a child for an email, a precise location or a friend list, has no chat between children and shows no ads in the lesson. A parent confirms by email before the tutoring features work, and the parent screen lets you pause and delete. Even so, a language model can make mistakes, so look over what your child learned now and then.
Is Maya suitable for a child with ADHD or a learning difficulty?: Maya does not assess children and does not replace therapy or specialist teaching. She does explain again without tiring and asks one question at a time, answered by tapping. If a professional has made a recommendation, follow it first.

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