The Salon Professional Academy-Tonawanda
About
The Salon Professional Academy-Tonawanda is a beauty education institution located in Tonawanda, New York. It offers programs in cosmetology, esthetics, nail technology, barbering, and advanced esthetics training. While the founding year is not mentioned, it operates independently under the TSPA chain, which is recognized for excellence in beauty education.
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Pell equity
Non-Pell students graduate at a 40.0-point higher rate than Pell recipients.
Program outcomes
Federal Program Performance Data: how each program's graduate earnings and debt measure up under Financial Value Transparency and Gainful Employment.
Of 1 Title IV programs, 0 pass the federal Gainful Employment test and 0 fail. 1 have graduate earnings too small to publish, so they carry no pass/fail verdict.
Pass / fail distribution
- Passing0 · 0.0%
- No Data1 · 100.0%
- Failing0 · 0.0%
Severity spectrum
Tiers band programs by how far graduate earnings sit above or below the benchmark, from Critical (below −15%) through Safe (above +25%). No data means earnings were privacy-suppressed.
Debt vs earnings
Median completer debt against median graduate earnings, highest burden first.
Accreditation status & history
Who accredits the institution, current standing, and any past actions.
National Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
Action history · 9
- Nov 2025Probation or Equivalent or More Severe Status: MonitoringNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
- Jan 2025Renewal of AccreditationNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
- Jul 2023Grant Substantive Change: ProgramNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
- Jul 2023Grant Substantive Change: ProgramNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
- Mar 2022Grant Substantive Change: ProgramNational Accrediting Commission of Career Arts and Sciences, Inc.
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Net price by family income
Negative values mean aid exceeds the published cost of attendance for that income band.
Federal aid volume & trends
Pell grants and federal Direct Loan volume disbursed to students, and how they've trended.
In AY 2024–25, 107 students received $394K in Pell grants, alongside $543K in federal Direct Loans.
Pell recipients · 5-year trend
Loan volume by type · AY 2024–25
Loan awards count each loan type a student holds, not unique borrowers; one student may carry several (e.g. subsidized and unsubsidized), so the per-type figures are the reliable detail.
Student loan default rate
The share of student borrowers who default on federal loans within three years, against the national benchmark.
Of 93 borrowers who entered repayment, 0 (0.0%) defaulted within three years — below the 2.3% national rate.
Default rate vs national, by cohort
* Cohorts 2020 and later read near 0% because the federal COVID-19 payment pause (CARES Act) suspended defaults nationwide. These years reflect a national policy, not institutional performance; the 2019 cohort is the last measured under normal repayment.
Academic programs at Tspabuffalo
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Campus safety & crime statistics
Reported on-campus crimes over the last three years, including violence and hate crimes.
3-year trend
Criminal offenses by type
By location
VAWA offenses
Hate crimes by bias
No hate crimes reported.
Arrests vs disciplinary referrals
Residence-hall fires
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
Tspabuffalo vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions Tspabuffalo selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
| Carnegie | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SubjectThe Salon Professional Academy-Tonawanda | 71% | — | 142 | $16,391 | — |
Alabama School of Nail Technology & Cosmetology | — | 84.6% | 97 | $18,819 | — |
Aveda Institute Portland-Vancouver Campus | — | — | 122 | $18,476 | — |
Aveda Institute-Maryland | — | — | 77 | $12,253 | — |
Avenue Five Institute-South Austin Campus | — | — | 139 | $23,773 | — |
California Hair Design Academy | — | — | 98 | $40,350 | — |
Casal Aveda Institute | — | 97.2% | 102 | $16,575 | — |
Collectiv Academy | — | — | 70 | $19,996 | — |
Empire Beauty School-Lakeland | — | — | 145 | $18,028 | — |
Estelle Skin Care and Spa Institute | — | — | 141 | $13,837 | — |
Eves College of Hairstyling | — | — | 86 | $15,155 | — |
Grace International Beauty School | — | — | 24 | $14,925 | — |
Kenneth Shuler School of Cosmetology-Columbia | — | — | 64 | $13,152 | — |
La Belle Beauty Academy | — | — | 106 | $20,261 | — |
Lancaster School of Cosmetology & Therapeutic Bodywork | — | — | 402 | $12,358 | — |
Mitsu Sato Hair Academy | — | — | 85 | $10,412 | — |
Morgantown Beauty College Inc | — | — | 68 | $11,040 | — |
Palm Beach Academy of Health & Beauty | — | — | 63 | $27,045 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Clear Lake | — | — | 133 | $21,928 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Fort Myers | — | — | 104 | $17,612 | — |
Paul Mitchell the School-Tysons Corner | — | — | — | $27,337 | — |
Rudae's School of Beauty Culture-Ft Wayne | — | — | 91 | $24,920 | — |
Schilling-Douglas School of Hair Design | — | — | 152 | $15,105 | — |
Skin Institute | — | — | 88 | $15,336 | — |
Southeast Texas Career Institute | — | — | 75 | $21,200 | — |
Stage One-The Hair School | — | — | 66 | $11,337 | — |
Summit Salon Academy-Kokomo | — | — | 98 | $16,572 | — |
Top of the Line Barber College | — | — | 45 | $14,486 | — |
Trend Barber College | — | — | 30 | $15,398 | — |
Tri-State Cosmetology Institute | — | — | 126 | $15,361 | — |
| Peer group median | 71% | 90.9% | 97 | $16,482 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
Grants & funding (1)
Federal grant awards and open funding opportunities awarded to this institution.
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