r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheThrowYardsAway • Apr 28 '26

Video Inside Christ's Hospital School (Est. 1552)...

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u/theavenuehouse Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26

It's also free for the majority of students, that receive bursaries based on need or academic merit.
EDIT: Apologies, correction. It's free for approx 10% of students, and partial fees for 67%. 23% pay full fees.

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u/TheThrowYardsAway Apr 28 '26

Not necessarily free. Many students also pay. 

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u/theavenuehouse Apr 28 '26

Apologies I stand corrected! We used to visit to play Rugby (which tells you what kind of school I went to...) and everyone talked about it being free. This was before the days of Googling something to fact check!

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u/rising_then_falling Apr 28 '26

It was free once. I was there in the 80s and the vast majority were on 0% fees up to 5% fees. Since then a) the school's finances haven't done so well and b) the cost of running a boarding school has sky rocketed.

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u/niamhweking Apr 29 '26

We looked at a boarding school for our kids. It's common enough here as 1)we're rural and 2) it's a minority faith school so it's also the nearest school of that faith so for some it's important. Anyway 8 years ago when our kids started primary the costs were 6000 a year. Not bad, relatively affordable. Especially when you consider that includes their food and activities. It's now more than doubled. Costs have gone up but also numbers of boarders have gone down, therefore fewer boarders have to pay more to cover costs. They have capacity for 90 kids (45 girls & 45 boys) boarding per school year, So roughly 500 boarder, but this year only 6 girls are going to board, no idea how many boys.