Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Secondary education

Connect with other parents whose children are starting secondary school on this forum.

Independent day school or state boarding. Anyone decided between them?

54 replies

Neim · 01/02/2020 13:39

We are fortunate enough to have the option of choosing independent day school or state boarding. Either would be a struggle financially ie a few sacrifices, not major debt. But I was wondering whether anyone had chosen state boarding over local independent and why.

Our local independent is King Edward Boys in Birmingham. It’s one of be best here. Its a day school and doesn’t accept borders.

DS has mentioned boarding so we’ve considered it and it might work. We wouldn’t be able to afford an independent boarding school, hence, looking at state boarding. We have picked out a couple but haven’t been to see them yet.

OP posts:
crazycrofter · 20/02/2020 08:02

Bromsgrove day fees are more than KES or OSH boarding fees though so it depends what the OP’s budget is.

crazycrofter · 20/02/2020 08:06

It’s just under £12k per year to board at OSH or Adams, £13.6k days fees at KES and £17k at Bromsgrove.

HJG696 · 15/04/2020 20:50

Reading boys is selective state boarding and has top results.

Mamande2 · 26/11/2020 09:53

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page