Small costs adding up across the school year have made education in Brisbane one of the most expensive in the country, a new report has found.
Brisbane’s Catholic schools have, on average, eclipsed other capital cities to be the priciest in the nation across a student’s 13 years.
That was according to a report commissioned by education bonds company Futurity Investment Group, which said it would cost families more than $270,000 to school a child from prep to year 12, beginning this year.
Brisbane parent Dom Woodall sends (from left) Lilly, Jagger, Thea, Zaeyan, and Tais to different Catholic schools.Credit: Dom Woodall
The report, completed by Resolve Strategic, crunched the costs on tuition, necessities, and popular opt-in costs, such as coaching and extracurricular classes using survey responses from 2500 families and school income data from Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority.
Dom Woodall has five children who all attend different Catholic-sector schools in Brisbane.
Woodall said she chose St Laurence’s College for her eldest child, Zaeyan, because of its proximity to his gymnastics lessons at Brisbane Grammar School.
“He trained 26 hours a week, [and] he would take the bus,” she said.
Her other children, for three of whom she is a kinship carer, attended Our Lady’s College, Stuartholme School, Saint Edmunds College in Ipswich, and Mary Immaculate Primary School.
“All of them except the oldest, [Zaeyan], have engaged in school sport every term,” Woodall said.
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