intl sch fees

[parentttt]

how much does it cost to place a child in internaional schools for primary level?  need to consider if we can afford that before moving there.

[SAE]

School charges vary - your best bet is to look up on the net, the fees are shown on each schools website. 

[scarbowl]

Suggest you check out a few school websites and judge for yourself.  They all vary - in addition, some have added fees such as for buses, uniforms, deposits, registration fees, etc.  Also, count the number of terms in a year for those with termly fees.

I believe almost all have fee information available on their websites.

[basic]

basic school fee in the range of 1600 to 2500 SGD...
varies by school...
do check out the websites...

[Basicx10]

I think Basic was missing a zero at the end.  Ours are just under S$27,000 a year per child (not including buses, uniforms, school trips etc etc).

[Basic Monthly]

Basic probably was talking of a per month figure.

[expensive]

Our fees are around $20K at the moment per child per year for secondary and that's one of the cheaper schools.  Bus fares are around $2K per year, uniforms work out something like $30 per set and then another $30 per set of PE uniform.  School trips are usually fairly cheap if they're around Singapore, if they go abroad it can range from $300 to a few thousand or more depending where they go - we've got a trip to Europe coming up for our Year 9 and 10s and our kids won't be going on it as it's $3K per child!

Look at sites for:

Tanglin
UWC
OFS
ISS
Chatsworth
Eton House
Dover Court

just for starters, and that should give you a fair idea of costs - Chatsworth I believe is one of the cheapest and UWC/Tanglin two of the more expensive.

[Not bad]

PP: Which school is it that charges $20k per year for secondary fees?  we pay 20k for kindergarten at OFS and OFS is about 1/3 cheaper than UWC and TTS.

[Add]

add an additional 10K+ for initial registration fee which is non refundable per child.

[Last year]

This is my son's last year in Secondary and we are paying a $21k at Tanglin.

Junior & Infant schools are less but close to 15k at Junior not sure about Infant.  All info is on their website.

[scarbowl]

Basic probably was talking of a per month figure.

  None of the international schools list a monthly fee.  You can't say "Give me 5 months of tuition, please!"  So it makes no sense to talk monthly.   And since some have more periods/terms than others you really have to calculate the annual cost - and add-ons.

[website says]

secondary 30 000 SGD one year - 10 000 a term x 3 terms. No idea where PPP got 21 000?

[expensive]

PP: Which school is it that charges $20k per year for secondary fees?  we pay 20k for kindergarten at OFS and OFS is about 1/3 cheaper than UWC and TTS.

Chatsworth - in fact it's less than that for us at the moment, it goes up to 10K per semester in the final couple of years.

I'm not sure how much kindie is, but the early years primary works out at about $15K per year.

[ours at cis]

Not sure exactly but about 20k a year.

Other extras as well, extra curricular stuff. Uniforms (but you do that anyway, local or int), various trips. Mostly insignificant compared to fees though.

Most schools have a web site that shows the fees. Make sure you add it up correctly though. Some show by year, some by term and not all schools have the same number of terms. We pay 6 monthly for 2 terms, some schools it is 3.

[parentttt]

thanks did not realise that the schools woudl list their fees.  Will look at them. Thanks for the list of schools.