Private School Tuition

I was paying $195/wk for daycare for my Kindergartner. Just switched to a new place that will be $175/wk. This is the Chicago burbs. We were thinking of private school as well and found that tuition for these wouddl only be a small amount more. In the end we went public: to save the money, and becuase he was accepted into a dual-language program that the private schools around us simply didn't offer. Being of Cuban decent, it's important to us that he learns spanish.

I have my daughter is pre k4 right now private school, that costs 128.00 a month. If I send all three of my kids there for K-8th grade it would cost us $707.00 a month!!! Mind you every year they jack the price up!

I taught at one.

It was a Montessori school in the East Bay Area (Northern California), and the tuition was $1800/month. Yes, really.

This was in approx. 2006~ and the school was K-8, all the grades were the same rate. I happened to teach 4th.

Depending on the school district where you live, it can be well worth it to pay tuition, or a total waste. Have you checked out your schools' report cards?

eta: I liked working there, but even if I were a bazillionaire, I would not have sent my kids there. It was too high, and those kids weren't exceptionally more educated than any of their public school peers. Plus, the no-grades concept was baloney, imho.

Catholic high school in the SW suburbs of Chicago for my daughter. $10,000 a year.

We just recently switched our son to private school. We do a 60/40 split as my ex makes alot more money than me. And with us agreeing on that, he didn't try to lower my child support payment. My son is in 9th grade in GA

Sorry forgot to mention its $12,000/year

Elementary Catholic schools for our kids- $8,000-$10,000 per year.

My boys then attended a Jesuit high school (Catholic). Tuition per year $16,500.

Then they both attended Jesuit colleges. Tuition per year $43,000.

Best investment we've ever made!

Northwest Florida, private church school about $600 a month each. I have two kids, 1st and 3rd grade. There are a couple of cheaper schools that are in the $400 a month range, a TESLA school that's about $800 a month, and several private montessori type schools that are $1000+ per month.

Its also why charter schools work so much better than public schools! Public school but funded privately & get more parent involvement. At least its that way in the area I live in.

p.s. not trying to start a debate - just my little 'ole opinion! No mean to offend anyone - teachers that teach in the public school systems in ANY city are well UNDER-paid!!

We have had my boys in private school till we moved to Florida...........we actually paid more in tuition when we moved here. The state actually offered us financial assistance with our tuition if we would of stayed. WE tried public school for one year and opted to homeschool......................We have paid from $3,000 $5,000 a year in tuition and now the costs are simply in homeschooling material that we pay out of our own pockets.

This, folks, is why high taxes work out in the end. No tuition fees!

Hardly. High taxes mean that your tax dollars are held hostage by the public school system. If you want your kid to go elsewhere, you're free to, of course. At your own expense.

This is a sore point with me. I lived in a very well-regarded school district in Bergen County, NJ and DS was falling through the cracks. I sent him to HS at NY Military Academy and he blossomed- got into physical shape, was described as "driven" and "disciplined" by one teacher, and was an officer of 2 companies when he graduated. He's now got a Math degre, a good job, a house, and a fiancee we love.

From 1999-2003, I paid about $14K per year for room, board, school fees and uniforms. Worth every penny.