Money question - school bus- how much?

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I’ve just paid for LOs termly return school bus journey. It’s a 50 min trip one way and she takes the bus 5 days a week. We pay £2500 for three terms. I’m curious to know how much other schools charge.

[edited by MNHQ on OP's request]

€75 for the school year. 25min journey

£368 per term for a 6 mile trip.

£2500 per term for the bus? Really? That’s about £40 a day.

We used to pay about £1.8k for the year, the bus was canned as financially unviable. Another school near us is about £500/term (maybe a bit cheaper). Flat fee no matter where you get on. If you’re entitled to free school transport you don’t pay; the paid service is an add on for out of catchment children.

£300 per term for a 10 mile journey 6 days per week. Just PM though cos DH takes her in the mornings.

She spends 1hr 40 mins on the bus every day 5 days a week? That’s longer than most people commute to work!

Daily return journey is £580 or £680 (depending on distance from school) a term. And this is London and flipping Dukes Education so usually I’m not easily shocked by prices but £2500 a term is absolutely insane. Are you sure that isn’t the annual cost?

Yes, it’s not cheap.

Someone is making a lot of money there, because that’s not a standard bus cost.
we pay £1200 per year and it’s a 30 min journey each way.

Circa 20 mile journey, 1hr in traffic, it’s around £700 a term return for 5 days a week. Private company used by the school.

Ours is £12 a day per child. So it would be £24 for us. Petroleum for my car is circa £50 a week so I take them. It’s 10 miles away.

eta … auto carrot turned petrol into petroleum. Thats not how I talk IRL. 😆

Eek! I’m so sorry – that should be 2500 pounds for three terms. Apologies.

Apologies- £2500 for 3 terms.

Yes, sorry, my original post was incorrect- £2500 for 3 terms.

My DD's state college bus is £850 a year for a journey that takes us 25mins to drive but the bus circa 50mins. They break up end June.

State school £860/year - there are 3 zones and we live in the furthest and most expensive.

Secondary school £2100 for 3 terms, SW London 40 min trip

That’s amazing.

A 50 min trip to school/work is quite normal where we are.

We've not taken up the place in the end but £1.4k annually, 15 minutes drive but I'm sure that journey would be longer on the bus. Yorkshire

Wow, that’s very pricey for a short trip. Thanks.

I understood from your OP this is what you meant. It was clear.

Thank you!

How many on the bus?

Our local private school runs several minibuses and one route carries only two pupils on a 50-minute each way journey.
When you factor in the staffing costs (2hrs AM & PM), fuel and cost of the minibus you can see how much it might cost when not subsidised in any way.

£700 per term for 45ish min journey. roughly a 25% increase from last year. Bus prices have really shot up this year-i checked out a few other private schools in my region and they’d also gone up by similar amounts