Anyone know school fees for Wesley College, Vic (st kilda rd campus)

[FabFiona]

Couldn't be bothered leaving a message for the admissions manager and having me miss his call then playing phone tag!

Just wondering if it is even within the range of possibility given there is a bus that goes from the end of our street.

Fiona

[Beach Mama]

Not on their site? Year 12 will be over $21k, not sure about year 7 sorry.

[FabFiona]

Nah, you have to ring the admissions manager to get a fee schedule. Not available on their website.

Thanks for the info.

[PumpkinZulu]

When a friend went there, I believe it was about $17,000 for year 12....but there's about $3000-$4000 worth of extras per year on top of the annual tuition fee, and also uniforms.

[Phteven]

Private school fees break through $20,000 - National - theage.com.au

[Trillian]

I know The Land newspaper puts out an annual thing with all the boarding schools and how much they are, so maybe you can do a search that way? Can you email them and ask?

[Beach Mama]

and that article was 2007 so you would think heading closer to 25?

ETA: Trillian I think Melbourne Child does too but they usually only list the year 12 fee and you work back from that!

[nothing2lose]

St Michael's Grammar is better anyway

[Beach Mama]

HERE is the fee schedule for Melbourne Grammar - would think it is similar???

[FabFiona]

Just got them emailed to me. Probably should have done that in the first place!

YEAr LEvEL
ECLC Elsternwick* - 14,250
ECLC Glen Waverley/St Kilda Road* - 15,850
Prep to Year 3 - 16,130
Year 4 - 17,380
Year 5 - 18,490
Year 6 - 19,780
Year 7 - 20,290
Year 8 - 21,440
Year 9 - 23,480
Years 10–12 - 24,030

Plus learning and technology fee - 1200
Plus consolidated charge (some excursions, library) - 1400

St Michael's is on the list of schools to look investigate further.

[nothing2lose]

Id love to send DD there (I went, my mum, my aunt, my DDs paternal GM) but it's too far away for us. Great school though.

[Yael]

I went to Wesley St Kilda Rd... IMO the Elsternwick campus and move over at year 11 is nicer - a lot smaller & more supportive environment but with the same access to facilities (they bus them over to the St Kilda Rd campus for a lot of stuff)

Also the thing to consider is that although there are a lot of parents are not rich and work hard to send their kids there, a lot of kids come from wealthy homes, and there is to some degree the need to give them the same stuff so they don't feel left out (the right clothes for casual clothes day etc)

n2l - when did you finish? Maybe we know each other

[nothing2lose]

I'm old Yael 1989

Eta: just realised you might have thought I meant Wesley! I went to St Michael's.

[Trillian]

Oh wow! DH and I were talking about the $8,500 it will cost to send DS1 to boarding school next year being a drain on finances, but that is HUGE!

[FabFiona]

Oh wow! DH and I were talking about the $8,500 it will cost to send DS1 to boarding school next year being a drain on finances, but that is HUGE!

Yup. However it is a very good school. We both earn decent wages, not rich but not poor either. It's still a while away but we could make this work.

Something that LimeSlice said on here ages ago really resonated with me, about this being the single most important thing that I will give my children. That made me think differently about our options. Not necessarily more expensive but about quality and education values in line with DH and I.

St Michaels is actually slightly more expensive. - https://www.stmichaels.vic.edu.au/we...D2DA795AF540B8

[Amity]

The school I plan to send my boys to is over $25,000 each per year. IMHO it's vital.

And I'll be doing it on my own because XH sure won't contribute.

[nothing2lose]

But you can't argue with the quality product they are churning out Fiona

[Trillian]

Fiona, I totally agree, that's why we're sending DS to boarding school and not the local high school. It will be a stretch for sure but then we also qualify for the Isolated children's payment from centrelink which is just under $7,500 per year. We did look at sending him to Kinross Wolaroi, which is DH's old school, but we simply cannot afford that! It's a similar amount to the one you're looking at.