Puer Iesus College

Fees are per term, per family: 1 student £1,300/term; 2 Students £1,950/term, 3+ Students £2,600/term.

A deposit of £650 is required by 1st July before term starts each year (less any amounts already deposited) refundable off your first term's fees, to secure your place and enable us to prepare for the next academic year from July.

Unlike other similar educational establishments, our fees include all exercise books and textbooks required. Older children are expected to bring their own lined/plain paper for GCSE / A Level notes and work. GCSE and A Level students are each provided with a laptop computer. We have no school uniforms to purchase. Optional items are not included: trips (UK and abroad), exam board fees, college play tickets and so forth. Students are expected to bring their own loaded pencil case to the academy.

Why Do I Have To Pay For An Education?

Providing a high-quality education requires dedication and hard work from multiple people: mentors, tutors and others. Good quality committed teachers expect to get paid, and like anyone else with a job, so they should. It is a fact that a good education costs money. The British government gave state schools £7,460 for each child in the 2023/24 academic year. Private schools spend typically well over £10,000 per student per year. English Universities charge UK students almost £10,000 a year on tuition alone. If you are used to not paying for education, it is only because someone else has been paying it for you.

The amount we charge represents a bare minimum needed to provide a good education for students, including one-to-one support from mentors and subject-specific tutors, rather than the usual conveyor belt 30-student experience per class in state schools. Your children are provided with a bespoke education tailored to them.

Charging less would mean forfeiting the expertise of qualified experienced teachers and relying on parents and/or volunteers to lead sessions. From our experience, long-term volunteer-led education provision is sub-par. 

Why Are Fees Not The Same For Each Student?

We are a group of families coming together as a charitable community to provide an education for our children, not an organisation providing a transactional service based on a fee per student. The Church teaches that the family is the basic unit of society, not the individual. This philosophy engenders a different way of perceiving priorities that the modern person is not used to.

Our free structure is a compromise between families of fewer children, often with younger parents less established in their careers on a lower family income, and older more established families who typically earn more, but have greater outgoings to manage with more children.

The college receives significant donations from others who receive little or no benefit themselves - all parents, whether they have one child or many, rely on the charity that others gift to the college. We are all in this together!

'And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had. They sold their property and possessions and shared the money with those in need' (Acts 2:44-45).

Bursary

We have available limited means-tested bursaries for families who have already made financial sacrifices and significant changes in their lives to educate their children, but still fall short of the full amount due. Information about bursaries can be obtained on request, and be applied for once your child has passed the admissions test.

An Alternative Option

Once the college has been running successfully for a few years, we are looking to make resources available to other home-educating families whose children do not come to us. This option is not yet available, but we hope to have this accessible in the near future.

If this is something that interests you, please contact us and we'll be in touch when these resources become available.