What is your private school fee increase in September?

[jamanbutter]

My DC school has not yet informed of fee increases in September, leaving it very late imo.

My nephew school they are going up by 7.4% !!!
That school had increased at 10% in January.

Anyone else heard?

8% plus full 20% VAT!

4%

Can you believe that they probably won't tell us until half term is past? In principle this is so wrong because if parents can't afford the increase then they still have to give a term's notice, with all the fallout from that at this time of school.

3.5% in September.

But we already did the VAT related increase in January 2025, which was 14.5% (don’t normally have an in-year increase).

Prep school - flat but they have passed on the full 20% increase as they absorbed part of the VAT in Jan so in real terms 2% as the passed on most of the VAT.

Secondary - 3.5% but have also now passed on the full VAT so in real terms is 12.5% increase for parents.

Wouldn’t you normally have had to give notice at the end of last term/beginning of this term to leave in the summer? So whether they tell you now or after half term it’s too late to give notice, you’re tied til Christmas.

The school I used to work in used to announce in February/March. This year they announced they’re closing instead.

@ADifferentSong you may want to check your contract as one of our school contracts states they will give at least a full terms notice of increase, and in this case a full terms notice is required. If they don’t give this then you have two weeks from the publishing of the fee increase to decide and can serve notice and won’t have to give a full term.

So in this case if the school publishes fees during summer term then you can give notice within 2 weeks of receiving and can leave at end of that academic year.

I agree with @Namechangenancy99 to double check your contract as ours had a similar cause
We had rises of 4% and 3%