<p>I guess this is when we can say it “saves” to go to a private HS. Most of these items were covered with the tuition; not college apps or college trips, of course, but yearbooks, senior photos (each student had a student page in the yearbook they could create as they chose), graduation costs, senior trip, and graduation overnight party were all included (there were fund raisers during the four years that went toward the class grad night costs, pooled) Prom costs were extra, however, as were AP tests and SAT- anything optional or college related. Of course tuition isn’t cheap, but we didn’t have to plan extra costs for kids to graduate. They even “gave” us graduation announcements to send to relatives.
We did buy a few teacher gifts, but we did that every year.</p>