Fees

Fees 2024-2025 (from January 2025)

	Termly fee (minus VAT)*	Total termly fee (inc. VAT)**
Lower Prep School – tuition	£3980	£4776
Lower Prep School – lunch	£285	£285
Lower Prep School total	£4265	£5061
Upper Prep School – tuition	£5230	£6276
Upper Prep School – lunch	£295	£295
Upper Prep School total	£5525	£6571
Senior School – Day – tuition	£6430	£7716
Senior School – Day – lunch	£330	£330
Senior School – Day – total	£6760	£8046
Senior School – Full Boarding***	£11655	£13920
Senior School – Weekly Boarding***	£10915	£13032
Senior School – Boarding – 4 nights	£10085	£12036
Senior School – Boarding – 3 nights	£9255	£11040
Senior School – Boarding – 2 nights	£8425	£10044

*Reduced fee to account for the 14.38% pass on

**Tuition and lunch, plus boarding where appropriate, paid by termly Direct Debit.

*** Full Boarding is charged for pupils wishing to board for 6 or 7 nights each week and includes boarders’ weekend activity charges; our Weekly Boarding option is available for pupils wishing to board for 5 nights each week and includes a free bus pass. Boarding for fewer than 5 nights does not attract complimentary bus travel. For Occasional Boarding see our ‘Other Charges’ below. Boarding fees for pupils under the age of 16 may be paid using childcare vouchers (issued by and arranged through employers). Weekly and occasional boarding does not include activities. These will be separately charged.

What is included

Our fees include books and some public examination fees but exclude trips and visits. Lunches are mandatory for all pupils.

Extras

Trips and visits are excluded. You will also be charged for any extras incurred including:

• Some clubs and societies
• Optional individual musical instrument tuition
• Academic support
• Use of the bus service
• Insurances
• Occasional boarding
• Additional meals
• Out-of-hours care

iPads

Senior School pupils require an iPad that meets our minimum specification; full details of how we use, manage and support these, including details of our lease-buy scheme, can be found here. Prep School pupils do not need personal devices as they have access to class iPads when necessary. 

Direct debit discount

We give a 2% discount off net standard fees if you pay in full by Direct Debit on the designated direct debit date before the start of term.

If you choose to pay by any other method, including monthly direct debit instalments (four per term), you will not qualify for this discount. (Net standard fees comprise tuition fees less any sibling discounts or bursary grants, plus termly/weekly boarding costs).

Sibling discount

We give a sibling discount of 2.5% of the net tuition fees for all siblings where two or more siblings attend at the same time. (Net tuition fees are tuition fees less any bursary grants).

Continuity of Education Allowance (CEA)

We welcome Armed Forces, MOD and Diplomatic Service families and have a number of them represented in our boarding houses. We offer a discount of 10% of net boarding fees after CEA, and before any applicable taxes or levies.

Parent contract

Please read our fees and charges in conjunction with our parent contract policy.

Other charges 2024-2025

Insurances

	Per term	Per year
Pupil Personal Accident insurance scheme – including emergency dental cover (compulsory)	£7.00	£21.00

Fees refund scheme (opt-in)

1.55% of net tuition fees (and boarding fees where applicable)

Optional individual and group music tuition

Per instrument

	Per term (Inc. VAT)
Prep School	£336
Senior School	£444
Music Instrument Hire	£48
Lower Prep – Stringlets	£168
Lower Prep – Ministrings	£168

Please note

Lessons may only be stopped at the end of a term. Notice to discontinue lessons must be given in writing (which includes email) to the Music School office by the beginning of the half term holiday of the term at the end of which you wish the lessons to cease.

Notice given any later than this will be deemed to apply to the following term. The same terms of notice apply when a pupil changes instrument or teacher. No refunds are granted for non-attendance due to pupil illness or injury.

Academic support

	Per hour (Inc. VAT)
Initial assessment	Free
Further assessment	£64
Group lessons and 1-1 support in class – Prep School	£31
Group lessons and 1-1 support in class – Senior School	£35
Individual lessons – Prep School	£64
Individual lessons – Senior School	£71

Please note

Academic support lessons are delivered in partial or full timetable periods (3 x 15, 2 x 20, 1 x 25, 1 x 50 minutes per lesson). Charging is based on the number of lessons attended x number of minutes x relevant hourly rate. No refunds are granted for non-attendance due to pupil illness or injury.

Whole year group residential trips

	Per child
First Form residential (Autumn term)	£290
Third Form WWI Battlefields Trip (Autumn term)	£358

These trips are normally attended by the entire year. The costs are payable in advance and will be added to your Autumn term invoice which will be payable in early September.

Flexi and occassional boarding* (Senior School only)

	Per night (Inc. VAT)
Taster night	Free
Three nights following taster	£72
Each night thereafter	£89

Occasional boarding is charged for ad-hoc use of the boarding houses. Regular boarding is charged at the boarding rates in the top table. We reserve the right to charge a regular boarding rate if a regular pattern of boarding becomes evident. 



*Boarding fees for pupils under the age of 16 may be paid using childcare vouchers (issued by and arranged through employers).

Kim Club** (Prep School Before and After School Care)

	Per session
Breakfast session (from 7.30am)	£9.80
4.00-5.00pm (Reception to Year 2)	£8.40
4.00-6.00pm (Reception to Year 2)	£14.00
5.00-6.00pm (Year 3 – Year 6)	£8.40

**Kim Club fees may be paid using childcare vouchers. Kim Club can be booked online on a termly or ad hoc basis.

Occasional meal (Senior School)

	Per meal
Breakfast	£5.30
Evening meal	£5.30

Day pupils may join the boarders for weekday breakfasts (8.00am) or dinner (6.00pm) subject to 24 hours notice. Passes for these meals are available from the Bursary or can be booked using an occasional dining form. The cost will be added to your end of term account.

There will be occasions when your child is expected to stay for an evening meal (eg. for the Senior House Music Competition) for which no charge will apply.

Miscellaneous charges

	Per year
Kimbolton School Parents’ Association membership fee. Added to your Spring bill.	£20 per family
The Kimboltonian (Senior School magazine – distributed to all families in Autumn Term, Senior families only in Summer Term). Added to your Spring and Autumn bills respectively.	£18 per copy per family
The Kim Prep Press (Prep School magazine – distributed to Prep families in Autumn Term). Added to your Spring bill.	£18 per family

Admissions fees

	Per child
Initial registration fee (non-refundable) – UK/EU national	£120
Deposit – UK/EU national – Day or Boarding – admission in academic year 2024-25	£600
Deposit – Non-UK/EU national – Day	£1000
Deposit – Non-UK/EU national – Boarding – admission in academic year 2024-25	£6000

• The deposit is payable when you accept our offer of a place. For those entering in September, this is usually in the previous February.
• UK/EU national fees and deposits apply where either parent or the child holds UK or EU nationality. In all other cases, the non-EU national rates apply.
• The deposit may be paid via credit/debit card or bank transfer
• The deposit is refundable on request after the leaver’s bill has been settled; the Parent Contract refers.