School fee increase comparisons for 08/09

[LIZS]

Ours are around 7.5% lfl but for dd will be higher as she moves up in the fee structure. Anyone else had theirs yet ?

LIZS - I think we are in a similar geographical location - ours have risen on average 6.25%, but some additionals - coach travel, lunches etc have risen by 7.5% or more.

Ours go up in January - was 5% this year so we got off lightly.

DH is still in shock with ours - no rise in fees

However, they are going to start charging for after school club at £3 a session (to fit in with policy at all the other local independent schools), so for people using that there is a rise in real terms. This will mean a £3 a week rise for us.

5.75% across the whole school, but my DD, like yours, is moving into the juniors so there's an extra cost there. As they always point out though, it's cheaper than the comparable schools in the area!

Ours is 5%.

But DD is moving from Y6 to Y7 so we will have a 21% rise in fees (and that's with a 24% scholarship discount!)

4.5% here.

Quite a range then?

Around 6% here

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Interesting range . We didn't have as high as some last year. Various anticipated rises in overheads and longer term projects have been factored into this one. On the flip side we won't have to pay for any afterschool care or clubs for dd from September anyway.

Our school had a decent size rise last year, although seemed larger for s anyway as DD moved from PP1 to PP2 - which involved an extra rise anyway.

We had our letter on Saturday.

Pre-prep going up from £2,000 per term to £2,140

But ds will starting in September so we will have two to pay for EEK!

I thought our rise would be higher because of building work that is going on.

It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few years as I am aware they have borrowed/will need to borrow to fund the expenditure.

Ours is 4%, think the governors will have been under a lot of pressure to keep it low as school is doing vast building programme and we were assured it wouldn't be going on our fees but coming out of capital reserves.

We got the letter at the weekend. 4.7% increase, taking it up to £4455 a term.

Ours was 4.9%.

Ours up nearly £400 a year- from £8900 a year to £9300.

Big range is inceases as well as actual fees isn't there. Our new fees will be £9594/yr for seniors, £7160 for juniors, and £6318 fro pre-prep.

doh sorry can't type
Big range in increases