School Fees & Extras
The School Fee includes tuition, board, lodging, laundry, personal accident insurance, and the cost of most games activities. In addition, boys may incur Extras, i.e. charges for music lessons, boat club membership, and a number of other items. Details of current fees are available here. Further information may be obtained from the School Bursar.
Payment of Fees
At the beginning of each holidays, a boy’s school fee account is sent to his parent or guardian. This includes the school fee for the following half, together with extras and tradesmen’s bills from the preceding half. Accounts must be paid by the end of the holidays, except when prior application for delayed settlement has been made to the School Bursar and approved. A surcharge will normally be imposed for late payment. A boy’s parent or guardian is responsible for all fees and charges incurred on the boy’s behalf while he is in the school, regardless of his age. By order of the Provost and Fellows, a boy whose account has not been paid in full by the start of the half may be excluded from the school until it is.
Pre-Paid Fees Scheme
Lump sum payments are accepted under a scheme to cover selected amounts towards the school fee and extras. By virtue of early payment, the amount of money required is significantly less than the total fees provided for. The scheme is available for any boy whose name is registered on the Eton List, and initial or supplementary payments may be made at any time before the boy’s final year at Eton.
It is appreciated when parents support Eton's scheme rather than commercial schemes, because any surplus achieved by the school is used to improve amenities for all boys and to keep down the school fee.
Further information may be obtained from the School Bursar.
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Bursaries
Eton warmly welcomes bursary applications from parents who might, under ordinary circumstances, not consider Eton for their son for financial reasons. Parents should contact the Access Adviser, Ms Francesca Moultrie, in the first instance for guidance regarding a possible application.
Eton has substantial financial provision designed to widen access by enabling boys to come to the school at the normal entry age of 13, who could not otherwise do so, and to allow boys to remain in the event of an unforeseen change in family circumstances. For boys without scholarships the normal maximum level of assistance is half the school fee, but growing funds are now enabling us to make a number of bursary awards beyond that level and indeed to subsidise the fee entirely in cases of need. No parents with a talented boy should feel that Eton is necessarily beyond their means.
(Financial assistance is not normally available for late entry to Eton, other than through the Sixth Form Scholarship scheme described separately.)
Some of the funds involved are for Old Etonian families, but most are open to general application. Awards are subject to a detailed means test. The best time to submit a financial assessment form is immediately after a boy has been awarded a conditional place following the traditional path of entry. However, the School Bursar can give provisional feedback on an earlier enquiry regarding school fee assistance. Bursary applications are treated confidentially. Boys will not be aware of having a bursary unless their parents or guardian choose to tell them.
About 250 boys receive assistance through scholarships and bursaries. Over 30 boys pay no fees at all.