do private schools ever give large discounts for siblings?

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Excuse the name change - feel a bit coy discussing finances.

I would quite like to send my children to the private school in our village - but I've got three in close in age (now in Y4, Y2 and one due to start school next year) and wouldn't be able to afford fees for 3.

Could stretch to fees for 2.

The state school they attend is a drive away and I'm not v. happy with it, they could walk to the private one. My youngest attends nursery there and it's very good.

I know the private one isn't exactly overrun with pupils, they had to put some classes together and have made a few teachers redundant, so do you think there is any chance they might give me a decent discount (not the piddly 10% off for siblings)?

Not a Catholic school but it is in small rural market town.It is a good marketing tool though as they get most of the large families who want to go private and what is the marginal cost of one child if the other 3 are pretty much full fees

plus the fourth child ends up paying full fees once their older siblings have left too, so unless they're very close in age the saving isn't as huge as it sounds.