School fee rises
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School fee rises
I have worked out that fees for the prep school my child attends has risen by over 70% in nominal terms over 10 years! Surely such rises are unsustainable- especially when wages are fairly stagnant and the economy has gone through a prolonged recession? Will this mean private schools will only be for the wealthy, where grandparents finance etc.? Truly shocked by this.
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Re: School fee rises
yes they certainly do increase steadily, my experience was of it increasing rather more than that - started in 1997 at about £800/term and finished 2008 @ £2200..
Still way below senior fees.
There are plenty of people who still have the money however have seen a number of prep schools struggle over the years, usually the smaller ones with palatial buildings and large grounds which cost a fortune to keep up. One locally is some of the land for development to enable work to be done on the listed main building
Still way below senior fees.
There are plenty of people who still have the money however have seen a number of prep schools struggle over the years, usually the smaller ones with palatial buildings and large grounds which cost a fortune to keep up. One locally is some of the land for development to enable work to be done on the listed main building
Re: School fee rises
That's some increase! My child's fees for their last year have nudged over £4k (and we are not in London!) so in actual fact there is not a great deal of difference between this and some senior schools fees, especially the lower years. Facilities are far from great/ palatial.
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Re: School fee rises
4k is a lot for prep!
Just thinking about it, the increase I mentioned referred to 2 different preps so might look more than it was - prep 1 started at £800 and is now (17 years later) £1990
Prep 2 was about £1600 in 2005 and is £2650 now.
Just checked a couple of others locally
£2700,
£3650 (yrs 5/6) 4250 (yrs 7/8) - struggling financially
£2920 (was boys only now coed)
Just thinking about it, the increase I mentioned referred to 2 different preps so might look more than it was - prep 1 started at £800 and is now (17 years later) £1990
Prep 2 was about £1600 in 2005 and is £2650 now.
Just checked a couple of others locally
£2700,
£3650 (yrs 5/6) 4250 (yrs 7/8) - struggling financially
£2920 (was boys only now coed)