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One in five NSW private schools freeze fees for 2021 – Sydney Morning Herald
The average independent school fee hike dropped from 3 per cent to 1.74 per cent in 2021, as schools tried to provide relief to families and keep enrolments amid…
Edstart chief executive Jack Stevens said the pandemic and its impact on the economy had accelerated an existing decline in the school fee inflation rate, as some tried to help families whose finances had been impacted.
“This has been the lowest fee increase for some of these schools in a decade,” he said. Most of Sydney’s high-fee independent schools increased fees by between 3.5 and 4 per cent last year; total fees have surged more than 30 per cent since 2013.
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