GDS tuition 2024-25?

[Anonymous]

Can anyone share the GDS tuition rates for 2024-2025? Their website still has 2023-2024 listed and I have searched this forum but can't find the answer.

We are interested in GDS in future years and I'm trying to project out potential future costs, taking into account an annual increase. Obviously I can only guess at future year tuition rates, but I'd like to start with the most recent accurate info (24-25). Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

I don't know but I will say that you should probably allow 5% annual tuition increase as that is what we have generally seen across three private schools in the last 12 years.

[Anonymous]

For HS, it's $53,220

[Anonymous]

If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

Try public.

[Anonymous]

It's $50,940 for MS and $48,850 for LS.

[Anonymous]

Y'all are crazy!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.

Try public.

OP here. This is such an odd comment. For the record, our combined income is $1.5M and we can afford it. But I also recognize the extraordinary expense and the fact that life happens and something could change with that income. Getting a sense of expense over the long haul would be a key question I’d ask for any business investment… why wouldn’t I ask it as it relates to the biggest decision we’ll make for our family?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's $50,940 for MS and $48,850 for LS.

Thank you!

[Anonymous]

Assume a 5% increase per year in your projections.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. This is such an odd comment. For the record, our combined income is $1.5M and we can afford it. But I also recognize the extraordinary expense and the fact that life happens and something could change with that income. Getting a sense of expense over the long haul would be a key question I’d ask for any business investment… why wouldn’t I ask it as it relates to the biggest decision we’ll make for our family?

Because many if not most of us don't view our kids as "investment" vehicles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. This is such an odd comment. For the record, our combined income is $1.5M and we can afford it. But I also recognize the extraordinary expense and the fact that life happens and something could change with that income. Getting a sense of expense over the long haul would be a key question I’d ask for any business investment… why wouldn’t I ask it as it relates to the biggest decision we’ll make for our family?

Because many if not most of us don't view our kids as "investment" vehicles.

Judging by the obsession with college placements, I’d say quite a large percentage of DCUMers view private school as an investment.

[Anonymous]

That's mostly the same set of obsessed parents posting over and over again. I can say that they're not representative of most private school parents that we know.

[Anonymous]

It's around $25,000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Assume a 5% increase per year in your projections.

This. If you average out increases across all privates, it's right around 5% a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. This is such an odd comment. For the record, our combined income is $1.5M and we can afford it. But I also recognize the extraordinary expense and the fact that life happens and something could change with that income. Getting a sense of expense over the long haul would be a key question I’d ask for any business investment… why wouldn’t I ask it as it relates to the biggest decision we’ll make for our family?

Because many if not most of us don't view our kids as "investment" vehicles.

I'm sorry but, again, this is so odd. I don't see my kids as an investment vehicle. I want the best experience for them but with three kids I also need to consider if an expense of well over $2M is worth it for all of us. I hope I am modeling for my kids to make strong, intentional choices with how they spend their money.

My kids are currently in two private schools that we really like and the cost is worth it to us. I also know that no school is perfect and there are pros and cons to it all -- the individual school, public vs private, all of it. As you suggest (or directly state, as the case may be) that the fact I'm asking about tuition is a sign that either 1) I can't afford it or 2) I view my kids as an investment vehicle, well, you are so out of touch with reality, I'd love to know where you send your kids to ensure mine do not grow up around people like you. It's one thing to spend millions on your kids education (which I am on the path to do, so you won't get judgment from em for that!) -- it's another to throw insults at people who are taking the cost of it all seriously. Please go away.