Brisbane’s most expensive private school has raked in more than half-a-million dollars in application fees in 2023 alone – with no guarantee of a spot for the students applying.
Brisbane Grammar School’s new STEAM precinct, which features 15 lab spaces of university standard, a specialised laboratory for biological dissections, art studios, a kiln room and a 300-seat open auditorium.The inner-city school received about 1300 enrolment applications in 2023 – at $500 per child – up from about 700 applications four years earlier.
In 2023, the school limited fee increases to 4.5 per cent, Humphrey said, but they rose by 8 per cent in 2024, with the annual fee now $32,760 for high school.“For context, we understand that our direct competitors announced fee increases in 2024 in the order of 7.5 to 10 per cent,” Humphrey wrote in the annual report.
Brisbane Grammar’s sister school, Brisbane Girls Grammar School, also reported “strong” waiting list numbers.Across the board, enrolments in Queensland private schools have continued to rise in recent years.
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