School Fees

The average termly fee at an ISC school for 2010/2011 was £4,290 per term. In addition:

• The average termly day fee at a day school was £3,655
• The average termly day fee at a boarding school was £4,713
• The average termly boarding fee was £8,384

School fees are typically cheaper than the average in schools in the North and at prep schools.

School fees, excluding nurseries, increased by an average of 4.5% in 2011.  This is the second lowest fee increase since 1994, and compares with a rise of 5.3% in the CPI education component in the year to January 2011.  Some two thirds of a school's costs are comprised of staff salaries. Teaching staff costs as a percentage of net fees were equal to 53% in 2009. ISC schools maintain low pupil teacher ratios to ensure that they cover a very broad curriculum. The continuing excellent examination results in 2010 are further evidence of the good work that school fees are put to: Overall ISC A-Level examination results showed that in 2010, 51.5% of entries were awarded at least an A grade, with 17.2% of entries awarded the new A* grade. At GCSE, 60.2% of entries were awarded either an A* or an A.

ISC fee rises are the lowest in paid for education
School fee increases at ISC schools are around two-thirds of those of all paid-for education. ISC school fees account for less that a third of overall private education expenditure.  All other private education costs are therefore rising faster than those in ISC schools.