Private school parents - what % fee increase are you looking at for Sept?

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Just had our letter - almost 8%

Ouch!! 8% in the current climate is pushing it surely?

Ds is starting a new school in September so I don't know the new figure but last year it was 3.5% so I'm hoping for something similar (she says in hope!).

Don't know yet. Letter will come in next few days. We had no increase last year, but can't see that happening again.

8% sounds a lot.

2.2%

Had a letter saying the specific info was coming,

9.5 % here.

Quite a lot in this climate I think although the letter claims to be aware of the climate and so increases have been kept to a minimum apparently.

We haven't had our letter yet.

8% has been fairly typical over the years, but it all depends on costs.

I know that at the school I work in our staff costs have probably gone done or stayed much the same (retirees replaced by NQT and other staff savings) and pupil numbers have gone up by approx 15%. This should mean that the teachers' pay award is basically covered, so I would not anticipate an increase at all, or at worst, a very small one. No one knows the extent of bursaries given to current families experiencing hardship with the recession, so who knows?

None! He'll be at Uni by then I hope. Can't wait to not be paying school fees after all those years. Uni, for which he will get the loans, sounds cheap in comparison!

ours is 5% but it went up 7% last year

None. Frozen at last years fees. But that is only because there was total uproar about last year's increase which was handled extremely badly. We ended up paying 25% more than the previous year as the company who own the school decided to refuse to accept sterling payment and switched to local currency (we are overseas) and picked the absolute worst rate they could have. As a result DS now has 13 in his class instead of the previous 22!

ouch . Ours is just under 3% lfl (dd's will be more as she moves up), 5%ish last year iirc

ooh - had blotted this out - shld get the letter any day now - probably arrive on Easter Saturday just to liven up the weekend...

I don't know yet, ds starts year 7 in September. I have not recieved the letter but on the one offering him a place it said a rise for the rise in the teachers pay award.

5% last year - hope it's no more this year.

1.07%. Not bad as the increase is to fund a canteen (yeah! No more packed lunches to make) which is included in the price increase (lunches, that is).

Ours is usually anything from 5% to 8%. (Ouch)

3.5% at 2 different schools. Similar across the locality.

Over 10%. They are funding a new building. Grim ... (not the new building)

Wow, and they are making the parents pay for it through the fees?
Is this normal? I thought they funded new buildings through investments/sponsorship/fundraising???

Junior school - just over 3%. I thought they were brave to increase fees in this climate. But from others' experience on this thread, seems they were being restrained.

Our school year starts end of January and the fee increase was 8% for this year, made worse by the fact that both boys went up a fee stage. DS2's increase wasn't too bad but DS1's fees went up $1,000.

4% for us

2.8% for ds's school, but they are highly reliant on the employers of the parents paying the fees- not many pay privately.

3%