{"id":239759,"date":"2018-04-22T08:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T06:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=239759"},"modified":"2018-04-22T08:06:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T06:06:58","slug":"south-african-private-schools-see-major-drop-outs-due-to-rising-costs-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/finance\/239759\/south-african-private-schools-see-major-drop-outs-due-to-rising-costs-report\/","title":{"rendered":"South African private schools see major drop-outs due to rising costs: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

South Africa’s top private schools have lost thousands of students over the last year due to rising school fees and other costs.<\/p>\n

According to a report by the Sunday Times<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0two of South Africa\u2019s biggest private school chains, Curro and AdvTech, lost 3,881 pupils last year – mainly because parents could not afford to pay fees.<\/p>\n

In addition, both St John’s College in Parktown and St Stithians College in Sandton confirmed that they had seen a number of drop-outs as well as an increase in students who had fallen behind in school fees.<\/p>\n

However, it appears the pain is being felt at both ends of the school spectrum as enrolment at these private schools has also dropped –\u00a0increasing by 2.7% this year compared to 4.9% last year – while some schools have been unable to\u00a0fill their Grade 1 classes this year.<\/p>\n

High prices<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having\u00a0adjusted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0their fee structures for 2018, South Africa\u2019s elite schools are now more expensive than ever.<\/p>\n

Notably, when BusinessTech\u00a0first published a list of the most expensive schools in 2014<\/a><\/strong>, only one\u00a0school (Hilton College) was priced over R200,000 for boarding and tuition \u2013 now in 2018, 17 schools have moved into that price range.<\/p>\n

As it currently stands Hilton College and Michaelhouse are the most expensive schools in the country (first and second, respectively), followed by St Andrew\u2019s College (Grahamstown) in third, Roedean School for Girls in fourth, and\u00a0Kearnsney College in fifth.<\/p>\n

Aside from the prestige, tradition, and beautiful facilities and grounds, the fees generally cover tuition, board, games, ordinary medical attention, the use of the sanatorium, library and laundry.<\/p>\n

It also includes basic entertainment which is arranged for learners, and transport for sporting and other events.<\/p>\n

Most expensive schools in SA<\/h3>\n
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
School<\/th>\n2018<\/th>\n2017<\/th>\n\u00a0% Change<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Hilton<\/td>\nR276,560<\/td>\nR253,660<\/td>\n9.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MichaelHouse<\/td>\nR265,680<\/td>\nR240,000<\/td>\n10.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0St Andrew’s College, Grahamstown<\/td>\nR252,990<\/td>\nR235,335<\/td>\n7.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Roedean School for Girls<\/td>\nR252,341<\/td>\nR236,795<\/td>\n6.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Kearnsney College<\/td>\nR242,220<\/td>\nR225,940<\/td>\n7.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Bishops, Rondebosch<\/td>\nR240,380<\/td>\nR219,510<\/td>\n9.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0St Mary’s, Waverley<\/td>\nR234,540<\/td>\nR215,200<\/td>\n8.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0St Andrew’s School for Girls, Senderwood<\/td>\nR233,810<\/td>\nR219,450<\/td>\n6.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0St Stithians<\/td>\nR232,640<\/td>\nR229,010<\/td>\n1.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0St Martin’s<\/td>\nR232,120<\/td>\nR217,330<\/td>\n6.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0St Alban’s College<\/td>\nR229,410<\/td>\nR212,600<\/td>\n7.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0St John’s College<\/td>\nR227,815<\/td>\nR226,965<\/td>\n0.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Kingswood College<\/td>\nR221,370<\/td>\nR203,400<\/td>\n8.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Diocesan School for Girls,\u00a0Grahamstown<\/td>\nR219,420<\/td>\nR203,190<\/td>\n\u00a08.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0St Mary’s DSG, Pretoria<\/td>\nR209,675<\/td>\nR194,940<\/td>\n\u00a07.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Somerset College<\/td>\nR208,515<\/td>\nR196,712<\/td>\n6.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0St Cyprian’s<\/td>\nR204,000<\/td>\nR191,550<\/td>\n6.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0The Wykeham Collegiate<\/td>\nR196,600<\/td>\nR182,140<\/td>\n7.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Treverton College<\/td>\nR191,840<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n–<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0Herschel Girls’ School<\/td>\nR190,150<\/td>\nR180,040<\/td>\n5.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Read:\u00a0Government looking at changing school holidays<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These are the 20 most expensive schools in South Africa in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":77459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11121],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-239759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239759"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239779,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239759\/revisions\/239779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}