How we calculate the real cost
Where the fees come from
We take fees only from the school's own website or from a fee schedule published on the school's domain. We do not copy fees from other directories. Each fee row keeps the amount exactly as the school publishes it — per year, per term or per month — together with the academic year, the link to the page and the date we checked it.
If a school does not publish its fees online, the profile says Fees on request and offers a button to ask the school. We never fill the gap with an estimate.
Converting to a year and to euros
- Fees per term are multiplied by three, unless the school states another number of terms.
- Monthly fees are multiplied by the number of monthly payments the school states (for example 10 or 11). If the school does not say how many, we show the monthly amount only and do not calculate a year.
- Amounts are kept in the school's own currency and converted to euros at the European Central Bank reference rate of the build date. You can switch the display currency to pounds, Swiss francs or US dollars at the top of every page.
- In the United Kingdom, VAT at 20% applies to private school fees from 1 January 2025. We show fees as the school publishes them and note whether VAT is included.
The real annual cost
A headline fee is rarely what a family pays. When a school publishes enough detail, we add:
- Tuition for the year group;
- Annual extras the school lists separately — meals, transport, uniform and materials, exam fees, compulsory trips;
- One-off fees — enrolment, registration, capital levies and non-refundable deposits — spread over the remaining years of schooling.
We show the real annual cost only when the tuition and at least two other items are known; otherwise we show the tuition alone. The result is clearly labelled as a model calculated by Scholaria, not a figure from the school. Refundable deposits are not included.
Reliability labels
Every value has one of three statuses:
| Status | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Taken from the school's website | Read from the school's own fee page or fee schedule, with a link and the date |
| Imported from a register | Taken from an official register or open dataset |
| Calculated | Derived by us, for example the real annual cost |
Values older than 18 months are marked as possibly out of date.