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re: Private schools parents: What do you pay for tuition?

Posted on 4/10/26 at 12:28 pm to
Posted by Kracka
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Aug 2004
42349 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 12:28 pm to
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That extra 4k is going to make you broke?


Yes. I’d be school broke. I’d have to sell my arse on the streets
Posted by TigerTatorTots
The Safeshore
Member since Jul 2009
82209 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 12:40 pm to
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My son is in kindergarten. His tuition is $22k. My daughter is 3. Her tuition is $18k.
Holy shite

$5k + $1k supply fee for my 1st grader and a 10% discount on that for my PKer at the same school
Posted by TIGERSby10
Central Lafourche
Member since Nov 2005
7903 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 12:46 pm to
Daughter in Pre-K 4 of a Catholic private school, but next year's tuition for Kindergarten will be the same.

$4,700 tuition
$450 books, supplies, etc.
$100 roughly for Teacher's supply list
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$5,250 for the year.


If I had to pay roughly $75K a year for three kids, they would go to public schools.
Posted by bippotheclown
NW LA
Member since Nov 2022
76 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 12:52 pm to
Are you hiring? ??
Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
61428 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 1:11 pm to
Tuition, fees and lunch about 12 a year, I moved mine after years in public school, and it was a great public school. Wish I had done it sooner though, no stress, almost zero homework and socially it is so much better for them.
Posted by BamaHater
Houston
Member since Sep 2003
13549 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 1:18 pm to
I’m glad I went to a good public schools in the Houston suburbs
Posted by boogiewoogie1978
Little Rock
Member since Aug 2012
20071 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 2:10 pm to
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We live in the Atlanta metropolitan area.


Move bro
Posted by Jmcc64
alabama
Member since Apr 2021
2178 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 2:13 pm to
I think when the last one graduated in '18 it was maybe $850. I honestly can't remember. but short of 1k. where we lived there was really no legitimate alternative. (I went there as well)

very small school in Alabama. great campus but the general area has seen a decline in the last 20-30 yrs. all the white collars/nicer blue collars are dying or moving away.
This post was edited on 4/10/26 at 2:15 pm
Posted by Uga Alum
Member since Jul 2022
6527 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 2:16 pm to
See my prior post where I have cited all the cool shite I’ve experienced from living in Atlanta.
Posted by Free888
Member since Oct 2019
3266 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 2:43 pm to
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As someone who has kids in private school... Thats fricking absurd


Buddy of mine was a teacher at a high end private high school, later became public high school principal. His feeling was until kids are about 10 it doesn’t matter where they go. Part of this is because it takes boys that long to catch up to girls academically.

As for what I paid, topped out at about $40k for private high school about 10 years ago.
Posted by Texas Tea 123
Member since Sep 2017
322 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 3:10 pm to
Generally speaking in Houston you’re at least $25,000/yr for a good one. There are several that are more expensive in which you’re essentially paying to be in a club; they also require a donation (this is true for at least one — Kincaid)

Or you buy a $1.25mm+ house zoned for Memorial or Stratford. Or you go to a good suburb — Woodlands, Kingwood, Bridgeland, Katy’ish, etc)
This post was edited on 4/10/26 at 3:11 pm
Posted by Modern
Fiddy Men
Member since May 2011
17009 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 3:29 pm to
About 7k after all the fees.
Posted by ChatGPT of LA
Member since Mar 2023
6266 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 3:35 pm to
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My son is in kindergarten. His tuition is $22k.


Youre an absolute moron. Hure a nanny, get much more done, and have her gives him ABC coloring books
Posted by ChatGPT of LA
Member since Mar 2023
6266 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 3:36 pm to
Hs for daughter 18k per...she graduated and college feels basically free, lol

Son is 7.5k middle school
Posted by Uga Alum
Member since Jul 2022
6527 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 3:40 pm to
Actually, at my son’s school they build robots, they are already learning Spanish, and they are reading basic sentences in kindergarten. I’m pleased with the education. It’s a lot more than “coloring.”

We went to the school and saw the robots that they built. It was impressive. Again, he’s only in kindergarten.
Posted by NorthEndZone
Member since Dec 2008
14279 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 3:53 pm to
A bit of nostalgia from an old-timer that probably won't make any of you that are paying now feel any better:

In the 70s, I went to a small, rural Catholic elementary school. Once a month my parents would give me an envelope with a check to bring to school for paying the tuition.

It was only $40 a month - for BOTH of us.

A quick inflation calculator says that would be about $300 a month today.

So $300 a month for 9 months would be $2,700 for two or $1,350 each.
This post was edited on 4/10/26 at 3:54 pm
Posted by LongHornHandy
Member since Jul 2024
364 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 5:01 pm to
$12K per child Honolulu
Posted by Gee Grenouille
Member since Jul 2018
8016 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 5:18 pm to
one daughter left at a private school in WP. $6,000 per year.
Posted by Gee Grenouille
Member since Jul 2018
8016 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 5:20 pm to
quote:

A bit of nostalgia from an old-timer that probably won't make any of you that are paying now feel any better:

In the 70s, I went to a small, rural Catholic elementary school. Once a month my parents would give me an envelope with a check to bring to school for paying the tuition.

It was only $40 a month - for BOTH of us.

A quick inflation calculator says that would be about $300 a month today.

So $300 a month for 9 months would be $2,700 for two or $1,350 each.


North end zone went to Annunciation in Bogalusa, cause I've heard that story 1,000 times from the locals. FYI it's full of charter school kids now. For those like me that paid, it runs about $6,000 a year now.
Posted by NorthEndZone
Member since Dec 2008
14279 posts
Posted on 4/10/26 at 5:25 pm to
I'm in Lafourche, but it was similar.

There used to be a huge community fair/festival every May that would fund quite a bit of the school's operating expenses. Most Catholic church parishes had those type of fairs back in the 70s and 80s.
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