Is private schooling mainly an English thing, and what does it cost?

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I’m from NI so the majority of children here attend public schools, I don’t know anyone that attends a private school at all. But I always read about them on mumsnet, is it mostly an English thing? And what sort of cost is it to send a child to a private school? Genuinely curious

Why would it be mostly an English thing? There are private schools all over the world. The majority of English children also go to public schools, I don’t know anyone personally who attends a private school.

My kids attended private schools in Dublin. They are everywhere.

You can see the fees on their websites.

The majority of English parents send their kids to state school too! 93% in fact. The MN demographic is wealthier than most so more will be in private school than average.

It's all over the world - in London these days I think tends to cost upwards of £25k a year, can be less elsewhere.

I don’t know much about it, that’s why I’m asking.
and I wouldn’t have a clue of cost, are we talking like 5k a year or 50k

look on the website of private schools

I’m just asking a more general query, I’m not planning on starting looking at schools websites

I think it's the MN demographic. Lots of private schools in Central belt Scotland too.

Fees can range from around £10 - £20K for day pupils up to £60K+ for full boarding, per year.

It really depends on the schools. Although i don’t think you would find one for 5k. We used to pay 30k per child a year.day school not boarding.

I think the proportion of children privately educated is actually higher in Scotland than in England.

There’s quite a few them in the South of Ireland. You can go on the website of any school and look up its fees. They vary widely.

I recently read 25% of all children in Edinburgh

No private schools anywhere near me apart from Gordonstoun

I don’t imagine there are any private schools in England which are £5k unless they get significant funding from elsewhere.

some are £50k. Most are at least £15k now, the majority higher than this I would say.

I think there are some countries where they don’t exist (Finland?!) but I think they exist in some form in most places. Definitely in America for example.

I grew up in Edinburgh where about a quarter of children go private for secondary.

Now I'm in Glasgow where it's not so common but there are still plenty of private schools and the prices differ by a fair amount.

I looked up our closest out of curiosity when my youngest was starting p1 and it was about the same cost as nursery fees so theoretically we could have afforded it. I preferred feeling richer than we'd been in years though.

Where I’m from private schools/unis are for the children who basically were unable to attend a state school either due to lack of ability in exams or behavioural issues. Completely different system and mentality.

My SEN school cost between £21-30k a year. It's technically a private school

My DD school is £33k from September for day pupils. It was £25k Pa in her final year but she had a scholarship so we paid £18k. Our tipping point where we would have had to save said, it’s just too much was £27k.

when she started it was £13k a year which was totally comfortable.

They range where we are moving to from 12-17k, ours will be £13.7k from September. We are moving from NI though and I think there are only two in the country in Belfast, certainly none where we are!

Why would it be mainly an English thing?
What a weird thing to say

Public schools are fee-paying too in England 😜

@MabelsBeats I believe it is 25% independent schooled in Edinburgh, but the more usual UK figure of around 7% for the rest of the country.

A much larger percentage of children in England attend private vs NI, but this is also largely driven by the grammar school system in NI and the lack in England.

20% of kids in Edinburgh go to private schools

Really?are they? What’s the cost for that then?