Private school fees 23-24

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Many schools still have 22/23 fees on their website.
Will every school increase fee for 23/24? When will they update the fee?
Thanks

No, you don’t need to double the tuition fee to account for the extras.

The biggest ones are likely to be coaches (you might not be using them) and lunches (some schools, packed lunch is an option) music lessons (if applicable) and foreign trips (optional) and uniform (many will buy from the second hand shop). You also pay for public exams which is about £500 for GCSEs. Other things are cost if day trips, lost uniform, some clubs which might be extras.

Definitley run the numbers for fee increases of 5%, 7% and 10% and remmeber to compound the increases over the 7 years. The fees may well have close to doubled by the time you child leaves.

So, yes it would be useful to know the fee increase before deciding, but to be honest, some schools will increase by more than another some years and then that will be the other way round the following year….so this year’s fee increases alone don’t tell you who will have the biggest rate of increase over 7 years. You can only look at the starting point of fees now and assume there will be at least 5% rises each year.

If it’s a struggle at the start, unless you’re going to come into money or have definite large salary increases looming, it’s probably unaffordable.

For my ds it's just school bus and lunches so yes £3a per year. He has his instrument lesson out of school and he doesn't do any clubs that need payment. The school trips in the school week are reasonable and residential trips are always optional.

I can't quote but I think 30% more maybe 35%.

I think if cash is a issue - don't enter the private school system it's totally not worth it (I've got 4 children in independents) it's a munching machine 😂

But last thing you want to do is pull a child out of a private system - hard to go the other way

Extras really aren’t bad. Uniform is no more expensive than state.

for example. Blazers are £30 Sports trousers £16. I buy second hand uniform as does everyone else. The only people who buy the uniform new are the international children.

I'll join your school - our blazers are £120 and second hand £45

Golly, that’s so expensive. I was pleasantly surprised by the uniform costs.

We didn't really pay much for extras to be honest.

Instrument tuition about £200/term (but that's the going rate in this area, and obviously not compulsory), extras for books, school activities etc are generally less than £500 per child per year, major school trips (skiing/sports tours/language experiences) are in line with state school costs, and again not compulsory), school uniform is a bit more expensive than state, but high quality and there's a thriving second hand shop.
Exam entrance fees came to a few hundred each in GCSE years.

We're in walking distance so didn't need coaches, so can't advise on that cost.
It hasn't been a major amount.

Oh and lunches are about £250 per term per child.

LEH fees have increased by 10% which feels like a lot. Have there been similar increases across other private schools?
Given that we paid our acceptance fees for Y7 beginning of March, when I'm sure the school was aware of the upcoming increase, we felt it was not very professional to not have informed us prior to acceptance. Now when all other offers and grammar school places have been declined, the fee increase email is sent.
Maybe this is happening across all other schools too? Would be great to have a better understanding.

Our fees went up by 11.5 %. Blows
what we took into account for
inflation out of the water x 3 kids.

SHSK in Oxon increase is 7%, we just heard.

I expect that will be at the lower end of the range of increases locally, as they are generally pretty good re affordability

Ours is 10% (Surrey)

We got an email today about the increase. It’s 7.5% (north Manchester).

7.5% here too (Derbyshire)

Am still,waiting to hear fee increase for dd2’s school.

ds is moving to secondary in September. His prospective school are increasing by 8%, which is slightly more than I was expecting.

Ds school haven’t said a word about any increase, maybe they are saving the bad news for after Easter…

My Ds is year 10. Extra costs so far this year have been

School bus
GCSE text books
GCSE Geography field trip
GGSE German trip
Lab coat
Assorted materials for GCSE D&T

We have also paid for a term of archery lessons and a school ski trip.

Next year there will be no ski trip but a Biology field trip and exam fees.

Don't they need to give you a terms notice? Although mind you the other day I saw a school with a clause below the fees information saying fees are subject to increase as and when necessary.
Made me think they're strapped for cash.

We got an e-mail on Monday- 7.5%.

I have just bought a new blazer - £100. It's lasted 3 years though but it was a bit ouchy.

It’s standard for new entrants to not know what the fees for the following year are ahead of offers and acceptance deadlines. They all tend to come out over the Easter holiday.

To be honest, with inflation running so high, this year was always going to be a big year. I’m seeing anything below the current rate if inflation as a positive. Usually fees increase by above inflation rates. In fact, I can’t remember a year before when this hasn’t been the case for us over about 14 years. Fortunately for us, it’s a bit under this year.

urgh, haven't had ours yet. I'm thinking 10% but thank goodness only have 1 more year left so it's fine. I'm also stopping coaches as child is now driving so that will go into the fee pot. Lunches included

Thank you for putting things into perspective!

As other posters said, all schools inform after 11+ acceptances, so wouldn't hold this against LEH.

As price of EVERYTHING has gone up 10+% why did you think independent school fees would not go up as much?

I do agree that it wouldn’t be typical to agree a contract and find out the rate had gone up before the service even began. But that’s the nature of 11+ timetable and a term’s notice of fee increases.