Tool

Cost of a school to 18

Pick a school or enter a fee. See the cost year by year to the end of Year 6, 8, 11 or 13, with every assumption in view.

School

Fee-paying schools we hold a published fee for. Or leave blank and enter a fee.

Or a termly fee (£)

If you enter a fee, it is used instead of our data.

Child's year group now (2026-27)

Fees start in

Change this if your child joins the school later.

Assumed fee rise each year

0%3%5%My own figure

My own figure (% a year)

Split across two stages (for example prep, then senior)

Second school

Or its termly fee (£)

Second school starts in

Extras and one-off costs

Extras each year (£)

Your own estimate. We do not hold verified figures for these.

One-off costs (£)

Registration fee and deposit, from the school's own page.

How this is calculated

The fee for each year group is the school's published termly fee multiplied by three terms.
For each later school year the fee is raised by your chosen percentage, compounded once a year from the school year the fee was published for. At 0% the published fee is used unchanged.
Where a school publishes no fee for a year group, the nearest published year group's fee is used and marked with an asterisk.
"This school's own record" appears only where we hold at least three years of the school's fees. It is the median yearly change, leaving out the 2025-26 step where VAT was added.
VAT: independent school fees have carried 20% VAT since 1 January 2025. We never add VAT to a fee that already includes it. Where a source quotes fees without VAT, 20% is added and the table says so.
Extras and one-off costs are only what you enter. We do not publish averages for lunches, uniform or trips because we hold no verified figures for them.
This is an illustration of arithmetic on published fees. It is not financial advice, and schools set their own fees each year.

Sources: GOV.UK: VAT on private school fees.

Weighing this against a state school? Lay the two side by side.