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The school fee includes tuition, board, lodging, and the cost of most games activities and the majority of educational materials. In addition, boys incur variable extras, e.g. charges for music lessons, optional insurances, boat club membership and school trips.
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We support as many applications as possible. In 2021/22, 267 boys received fee reductions; 100 of these boys paid no fees at all. The average award was 71% of the fee. Scholarships and Awards
In academic year 2021/22, 20% of boys received financial support towards their fees (averaging a 71% award), with 100 boys paying no fees at all. For academic year 2022/23, £9.4 million has been budgeted for Financial Aid, with 107 boys paying no fees at all.
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- Charitable Status, Public Benefit and Tax
- Private Schools’ Sources of Income
- How Private Schools Use Their Income
- What Constitutes Adequate Provision For ‘The Poor’?
- Who Qualifies For Private Schools’ Reduced Fees?
- So What Could Be done?
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Music education is culturally and socially enriching for children, and deemed a vital part of a well-rounded education. Millfield, a high-fee private school in south-west England, is a member of the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference(HMC) – a powerful lobby group of private schools. Most HMC schools have similarly abundant music offerings....
Charities in England must have charitable purposes, and for more than 400 years, English law has recognised education as such a purpose. Charities must also deliver public benefit with their resources – but this term is only loosely defined in law. This effectively permits private schools to allocate most of the benefits of their land, buildings, f...
Private schools have three primary sources of income. 1. Fees Fees charged to families are the major source of private schools’ income. Fees may not seem a legitimate public concern – people can spend their money as they please. But the links between fees and the schools’ charitable obligations need to be unpacked. Private school fees are high rela...
UK private schools are, on the whole, replete with financial resources. Because they are charities, they cannot pay out dividends (they have no shareholders) and their freely available (“free”) reserves must, in law, only be sufficient to enable them to carry out their charitable objectives. Their remaining “restricted” reserves are funds that are ...
English law requires that charities provide benefits to at least a significant section of the public. However, the Charity Commissionadvises that what constitutes “significant” is a matter of judgment. In a landmark case in 2011, the UK’s Upper Tribunal ruledthat the law “requires that those who benefit from the charity’s purpose must be sufficient...
Mostly, charitable private schools seek to demonstrate their public benefit through fee remissions and complete exemptions. These may be means-tested, awarded based on academic, musical or sporting talent, or given as discounts for families with more than one child at the school, or to the children of staff. Again, these decisions are at the truste...
The financing of the UK’s charitable private schools is a matter of public interest and concern. These schools have public benefit obligations regarding their use of charitable assets, yet some fees indicate that private schools are indulging in market pricing, excluding nearly all but the wealthiest from any charitable benefit. In addition, the sc...
All schools named in this article were offered the opportunity to comment on its key findings. The following schools offered comments, which are summarised here: Eton College “The amount Eton spends on education is not met fully by fee income; a significant proportion of that expenditure comes from income from our endowment. In our last financial y...
The school is the largest boarding school in England ahead of Millfield and Oundle. [10] Eton charges up to £49,998 per year (£16,666 per term, with three terms per academic year, for 2023/24). [11] Eton was noted as being the sixth most expensive HMC boarding school in the UK in 2013–14.
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