Termly Fees 2025/26

Fees per term from 1 September 2025 will be as follows:

Fee type                         inc.VAT                  ex. VAT
Day £15,190£12,658 
Boarding £19,200£16,000 

If you are interested in fees for 2024/25, please contact [email protected].

Sherborne School Parent Contract 

Individual Music Tuition
  • First instrument: £38.50 per 35 minute lesson ex. VAT
  • Second instrument: £26.00 per 35 minute lesson ex. VAT
  • Hire of instrument: £56.15 per term ex. VAT
Individual Tuition

Learning support:

  • £49.00 per 45 minute one-to-one lesson ex. VAT
  • £25.00 per 45 minute lesson, two sharing ex. VAT
  • £18.50 per 45 minute lesson, three sharing ex. VAT
  • £13.00 per 45 minute lesson, four sharing ex. VAT
  • £8.00 per 45 minute extra support group ex. VAT

Language lessons:

  • £45.00 per 45 minute one to one lesson ex. VAT

Drama, Speech and Communication

  • Single             £45.00 per pupil/per 45 minute lesson (£450.00 per 10 week block) ex. VAT
  • Duo              £26.25 per pupil/per 45 minute lesson (£262.50 per 10 week block) ex. VAT
  • Group (3)          £18.75 per pupil/per 45 minute lesson (£187.50 per 10 week block) ex. VAT
  • Group (4)          £18.75 per pupil/per 45 minute lesson (£187.50 per 10 week block) ex. VAT
  • Group (5)          £18.75 per pupil/per 45 minute lesson (£187.50 per 10 week block) ex. VAT
  • Group (6)          £18.75 per pupil/per 45 minute lesson (£187.50 per 10 week block) ex. VAT
EAL
  • Individual: £60.00 per 45 minute lesson ex. VAT
  • Group of two: £35.00 per 45 minute lesson, each ex. VAT
  • Group of three or more: £24.00 per 45 minute lesson, each ex. VAT
Overnight Boarding

£60.00 per night, subject to availability ex. VAT

Additional Fees
  • House Subscription: £26.75 per term
  • Art materials: £80.00 per annum (sixth form), £65 per annum (fifth form), £42.50 per annum (fourth form), £32 per annum (third form)
  • Linen Charge: £106.75 one-off, charged on first term
  • Trunk Storage: £32.50 per holiday, for overseas boarders only to include checking and laundering of clothes during holiday
  • Tuck Box Storage: £5.50 per holiday

Purchases from the School Shop and the costs of other goods and services from shops in the town such as haircuts, books or shoe repairs will be added to the termly fee invoice.

Registration Fee

A fee of £300, inc VAT, is payable by all parents wishing to register their son for entry to the School. The fee is non-refundable whether or not the boy is offered a place.

Deposit

A deposit of £2,000 is payable by all parents on acceptance of a place. Parents normally resident outside of the UK must pay also a term's fees deposit which is payable on acceptance of a place.

Fees in lieu of notice

You are reminded that under the School’s terms and conditions you must give a term’s written notice to terminate the parent contract, given not later than the first day of the term which is to be the boy’s final full term at the School. If proper notice is not given then fees in lieu of notice will be payable in lieu as a debt.

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