<p>I’m talking about high school.</p>
<p>I’m a kid… but I was just wondering how much your children’s prep/private school costs…</p>
<p>The day school I will probably end up going to is 15k per year, but I would be on financial aid. If I go to boarding school, that’s about $35,000+ per year, but I would be on financial aid.</p>
<p>Around here, we’re looking at $20-24k for day school and $38-44K for boarding school. These would be private independent schools in New England. It’s expensive.</p>
<p>My parents – thirty something years ago – spent $2000 ($1000/yr) to send me to two years of a private school that you all know the name of – and then $2000/yr for state U. It was a LOT of dollars.</p>
<p>Education is expensive!</p>
<p>We pay $20K for a fifth grader. If she stays in independent schools, it will be well over $30K by the time she’s in high school. Our good private secondary schools are generally $26-29K annually.</p>
<p>cnp55, what boarding schools cost 44k? The most I’ve seen was about $37,000.</p>
<p>Parochial schools in this area are generally $10-15K, and independent schools are generally $25-28K. (These are high schools, for earlier grades the costs are usually several thousand lower.)</p>
<p>Parochial high schools run about 8 - 12k around here in the south. The Catholic ones are the least expensive, the Christian schools are in the 12K range (Baptist, SDA, etc). The Catholic boarding high school here is 18k for everything(tuition, fees, r & b, laundry, etc). The strictly private schools run up to 20K (plus, more if you board).</p>
<p>tuition at S’s boarding school is $31,500. The school is bare-bones, rustic, few amenities. Students do most of the work of running the place – chopping wood for fires (no central heating); building stuff and repairing anything that breaks; prep, serving and cleaning up meals (under professional cook’s watchful eye); all the cleaning. The faculty is excellent, though, and the kids have a few thousand acres of campus to explore on foot or horseback. I do think that “outsider” would take one look at the place and be incredulous about the tuition. For us (with tuition assistance), it’s certainly worth it. A great experience, and genuine leadership training.</p>
<p>waldorf schools are a good education for the price range of what mootmom says parochial schools r lower school(k-4) is around 10k hs(9-12) is around 15 ms(5-8) is about the same as hs i think a couple thousand less…and nursery school/preschool is probably 5k…if u compare it to other top private schools its good and my local waldorf school(on long island) has sent many kids to top colleges in the last few yrs(my sister was a graduate of this waldorf school altho she didnt go to a top school out of the 20 kids in her class she had a few kids going to harvard,nyu and a couple other schools and it being out of a class of 20 not a few hundred…) its a wealthy school but there day schools that r all around the world…theres scholarships…</p>
<p>List price for a full-time (six courses) program is $12,000 per year. The financial aid is pretty good, so out of pocket is much less than that (barring some confusion in their billing office, which I will have to work out this weekend). It is possible to get part-time enrollment at [my</a> son’s high school](<a href=“http://epgy.stanford.edu/ohs/]my”>http://epgy.stanford.edu/ohs/), and indeed he is only taking five classes, not six, for a corresponding reduction in list price.</p>
<p>Tuition for private high schools in Hawaii ranges between a low of $8,125 to a high of $16,350. (Of course, books, meals, supplies, test fees & incidentals are extra.) All of these are day schools.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060811/NEWS07/608110366/1001/NEWS[/url]”>http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060811/NEWS07/608110366/1001/NEWS</a></p>
<p>HIMom: it was actually cheaper for us to send our son to boarding school in Hawaii than to the local private day school…</p>
<p>I can’t get over how much some (including some CC people) spend on boarding schools for their kids… I always thought boarding schools were for rich Hollywood types or for people who didn’t want to raise their own kids (like my mother-in-law’s mom - who didn’t want to have her country club life interrupted by raising kids). Guess there must be other reasons.</p>
<p>Private Friends School in South Jersey, 17,500 for my 9th grader, and the same for my 11th grader. 8th grade was 14,700. It is a day school. Boarding schools are around 33-45. MY BOYS ARE DOING WONDERFUL. I WOULDN’T SEND THEM ANY WHERE ELES. Just starting to look at colleges. Wish us luck.</p>
<p>Secondary private schools on the westside of Los Angeles are $23K-$26K. In most instances, books and trips are extra. It’s about $15K-16K at the elementary level.</p>
<p>My kids’s high school is one of the best in the state (same as JLauer’s), but much cheaper down here - a little over $8000, and no boarding. It is considered the “rich kids’ school” - tells you something about the economy.</p>
<p>Private day school in eastern Mass—28K/year</p>
<p>Just curious…why is a discussion of the cost of private high school being posted on the College Discussion??</p>