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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a direct relationship between teacher salaries and tuition at most schools. [/quote]

Not true.

The more direct link is with number and salaries of administration staff.[/quote]

All you have to do is look at a school budget – – or count the number of teachers and staff versus administrators – – to say that this is simply not accurate.  An over-large/bloated administrative structure can be a sign that the school is not carefully watching expenses, but it is the overall mass of teachers and staff that make up most of the expenses for personnel.

Remember that when you calculate costs for employees you need to add an additional 20% to the salary to account for payroll tax and benefits costs.

Also, technology does not decrease personnel costs for schools as it does in other industries.   In fact, technology has made the cost of private school education more expensive.  In coal mining, automation means that one minor can do the work of 10 forty years ago.   You could use computers to gather all the students in an auditorium and stream a lecture at them and have one English teacher teach the entire graduating class, with low-cost part time graders brought in, but that is not the education that people want or pay for.   So teachers still have the same load of students, but schools have had to add a significant number of employees for information technology, and spend large amounts on technology hardware.

There really are no easy answers. As long as you have small class sizes, and offer a relatively wide range of course offerings, private schools will be very expensive. Then add in the market demand for nice facilities – – classrooms, athletic facilities, theaters --  and the price tag goes up.   Catholic education is an option for a more stripped down experience but even there they face  significant pressures from rising costs.

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