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Fees & true annual cost
From January 2025 every UK independent must charge 20% VAT on tuition. Headline fees on school websites still mislead — here's the cheque you'll actually write, with uniform, lunch and transport stacked on top. Toggle anything you don't need.
642 schools tracked393 with day fees on file74 with boarding fees203 structured extras
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Schools matched
391
Median total
£26,475
Range
£3,750 – £101,868
Ranked by total annual cost · day pupil
Top 30
- The Royal Ballet School£101,868WestminsterCo EdAll Through
- EalingCo EdPre PrepHeadlineTuition £69,570No source
- Eton College£63,299Windsor and MaidenheadBoysSeniorVAT TBC
- Radley College£60,336OxfordshireBoysSeniorHeadlineTuition £60,336No source
- Kestrel House School£54,000HaringeyCo EdSenior
- John Lyon School Prep£53,703HarrowCo EdPrepVAT TBC
- Abingdon House School£51,633Kensington and ChelseaCo EdAll ThroughHeadlineTuition £51,633No source
- Westminster School£49,950WestminsterBoysSenior
- Marlborough College£49,449WiltshireCo EdSeniorHeadlineTuition £49,449No source
- Richmond upon ThamesCo EdPre PrepVAT TBC
- Bradfield College£48,600BerkshireCo EdSeniorHeadlineTuition £48,600No source
- Fairley House School£48,334WestminsterCo EdPrep
- CamdenCo EdHeadlineTuition £48,099No source
- Kensington and ChelseaCo EdHeadlineTuition £48,099No source
- WestminsterCo EdHeadlineTuition £48,099No source
- LambethBoysPrepHeadlineTuition £48,000No source
- WestminsterCo EdAll Through
- Burlington House School£47,733Hammersmith and FulhamCo EdPrepVAT TBC
- LambethCo EdAll ThroughHeadlineTuition £47,733No source
- St Edward's Oxford£47,598OxfordshireCo EdSeniorHeadlineTuition £47,598No source
- Gesher School£47,310HarrowCo EdAll ThroughHeadlineTuition £47,310No source
- Cranleigh School£46,800SurreyCo EdSeniorHeadlineTuition £46,800No source
- St Mary's School Ascot£46,800BerkshireGirlsSeniorHeadlineTuition £46,800No source
- Wycombe Abbey£46,800BuckinghamshireGirlsSeniorHeadlineTuition £46,800No source
- Charterhouse£46,773SurreyCo EdVAT TBC
- Tonbridge School£46,578KentBoysSeniorHeadlineTuition £46,578No source
- Bryanston School£46,350DorsetCo EdAll ThroughVAT TBC
- Winchester College£45,954HampshireBoysSeniorHeadlineTuition £45,954No source
- Cheltenham College£45,808GloucestershireCo EdAll ThroughVAT TBC
- Wellington College£45,750Bracknell ForestCo EdSeniorHeadlineTuition £45,750No source
How this is calculated
- Tuition — the most recent annual fee on file for the chosen boarding type. Where multiple year groups exist we take the upper-school figure as the conservative estimate.
- VAT (20%) — applied only when the fee row explicitly flags its published figure as VAT-exclusive. If the flag is missing or the row is falling back to the school's published headline range, we show a VAT TBC or Headline badge and leave the total alone rather than over-state it. Required by HMRC since 1 January 2025.
- Extras — median amount we've recorded per charge type from the school's published fee schedule. Toggle off anything you won't use.
- Each row links to the source on the school's site and shows when we last verified the figure.