How Much Tuition Do You Pay?

amother

Mon, May 03 2010, 3:29 pm

HOW DO PEOPLE DO IT???? Currently DH makes about 60K (used to be more but we left our second job and after a yr are still looking for a second income). After taxes and health insurance we are left with about half that for the year. School for both my kids (under first grade) is supposed to be 12,000. I have no idea how to swing that. It's half what we are making. Currently we live with family (see job issue) but we pay for much of our own things. DH is asking for a reduction, but it seems so ludicrious to ask for it in nursery. But they are both old enough that they need to go to school for part of the day.
DH works at a day school, so we are hoping for a better than average situation when they get to grade school but still....this is insane. After all the other basics (car insurance, food, gas, some clothing) we are totally maxed out!

amother

Mon, May 03 2010, 3:31 pm

Cont. above amother...btw. this is without fancy cars, clothing, sheitel (I wear hats), shoes, no vacations, no flowers for shabbat, no nanny/housekeeper. I just want my kids to get an education....

amother

Mon, May 03 2010, 4:29 pm

Playgroup/Pre-nursery- $375 a month (no fees and no transportation!)
Kdg and elementry- $315+150 transportation monthly
HS 450 (no transportation)

Annual minimum $250 building fund (per family not per child!)

NY school

amother

Mon, May 03 2010, 7:10 pm

I'm amother who has a great paying plan, but I don't want to say where I live because basically that is the ONLY good thing about the school. We are very unhappy with the school, but there are no other choices (aside from homeschooling which I consider every few weeks when we have yet another incident)

amother

Tue, May 04 2010, 10:28 am

I have a teenage son who is being homeschooled the expensive way.

Penn Foster correspondence high school: $50 per month
Piano lessons: $300 per month
Art lessons: $80 per month
Chavrusa 4 times a week: $500 per month

amother

Tue, May 04 2010, 10:41 am

3 kids in northern nj

about 9k for my pre1a-8 grade kids
7k for my kindergartener

building fee of 1500 and fundraising obligation of 1750 (dinner etc)

We pay about 29k in total for our 3 in school...it will go up next year when my little one enters pre-1a.

rivk241

Tue, May 04 2010, 10:48 am

3000 a year for nursery
6000- first grade boy in yeshiva
6000- 6 th grade boy in yeshiva
8000 - 4th grade girl in yeshiva

plus all building funds and registration bla bla bla!!
way to much!!!

amother

Teal

Thu, May 07 2015, 11:27 am

devorie- if you are going to choose a community based on tuition, that's not chassidish, look in to South bend, Cincinatti (has vouchers), scranton and may be rochester but I think that they cost more.

amother

Papaya

Thu, May 07 2015, 11:36 am

I don't have any school aged kids yet but this post is making me so nervous! Do you have to pay the full amount at the beginning of the year or can you pay per month???

Hashem_Yaazor

Thu, May 07 2015, 11:41 am

Pay per month. Some schools take postdated checks, many use a tuition management system like FACTS. They do NOT expect you to have a year's salary ready in September!

Hashem_Yaazor

Thu, May 07 2015, 11:43 am

Someone mentioned Cincinnati -- the elementary school is $9000 (-$100 for each additional kid I think) with state vouchers for $4250 regardless of income.

Shani88

Thu, May 07 2015, 11:46 am

Hashem_Yaazor wrote:

Pay per month. Some schools take postdated checks, many use a tuition management system like FACTS. They do NOT expect you to have a year's salary ready in September!

Right- they don't expect a year's salary ready in September, just by the end of the school year.

This is nuts!

Hashem_Yaazor

Thu, May 07 2015, 1:46 pm

Shani88 wrote:

Right- they don't expect a year's salary ready in September, just by the end of the school year.

This is nuts!

Most couples I know who have tens of thousands of dollars in tuition bills have both parents working. One to pay tuition, and one to pay for the rest of their living needs.

amother

Aquamarine

Fri, May 08 2015, 9:31 am

High school. Tuition with all fees is about $28,000 per child per year. We receive a reduction due to DH's medical condition.

b from nj

Fri, May 08 2015, 10:09 am

amother wrote:

I'd love to hear more about this correspondence HS. Do share & feel free to send me a PM!!

Thanks so much!

amother

Royalblue

Fri, May 08 2015, 11:59 am

Currently paying $20,000 for 4 kids, elementary and High School

Tuition jumping next year to include Seminary, Mesivta and 2 elementary, over $40,000.
We don't know how we'll do it, this is with discounts!