The Armidale School

The Armidale School seeks to be transparent with its fees including tuition, residential, extra-curricular and others. School fees and other costs are determined by the School Board and are subject to annual increases. For the fee schedule click here Enrolment Fee Schedule.

Please note that all School fees and other charges are due and payable at the time specified on accounts, unless other arrangements are made with the School.

Failure to keep tuition and boarding fees up to date may affect a student’s eligibility for certain co-curricular programs.

School Accounts are emailed to the email address/es held by the School for each family. The account can be emailed to multiple email addresses.

Please contact the Business Managers Office with any queries on accounts@as.edu.au

Tuition and Residential Fees

Tuition Fees provide for the basic range of academic services available at the School including some standardised testing, including: NAPLAN, PAT, AGAT, MYAT. Life membership of the TAS Old Armidalians Union is included in the Year 12 fee. Tuition fees do not include extra charges such as uniforms, textbook and software fees, laptop fee, photocopying, book room charges, school visits, sporting trips and activities, individual music tuition, camps or excursion costs, elective subjects, after school tutoring, after school care expenses, sports registrations and insurance fees, medical and pharmacy charges, train or bus travel, day student lunches, or other incidentals. In accepting Enrolment you agree to permit your sons/s/daughter/s to participate in educational excursions and extra-curricular activities, inside/outside the School, and to accept these charges as approved by the Head of School. These extras are charged on the school account as incurred. Non-compulsory activities such as Sport Tours and Round Square trips will not be placed on the School Account.

Residential Fees provide for complete house care and accommodation, school medical centre facilities, study, laundry and meal services. Residential fees do not cover expenses such as with taxi fares, dry cleaning, medical expenses, haircuts, recreational activities and entertainment.

Laptop Fee

Laptop fees covers the lease, insurance and information technology support costs. Under this program, each student is provided with a Macbook with appropriate software and the ability to connect to our wireless network. An excess fee of $250 is charged under the laptop lease Insurance policy for repairs.

Personal Belongings and Insurance

Parents and Guardians will be responsible for breakages and damage to school property and other personal property caused by their child and understand that the costs for any such breakage or damage will be charged to their school account. Likewise, the student is responsible for the care of his or her belongings and the school will not be liable for any loss or damage to these belongings. Please note that the school does not insure the student’s property and it is the responsibility of the Parents or Guardian to take out insurance if they consider cover to be desirable.

The school provides limited personal accident insurance for the student and recommends that where the Parents or Guardians deem it necessary, that extra cover should be taken out. Student Accident Insurance is billed at the commencement of the school year and is approximately $40. For more information please see the school website.

Outdoor Activity Fee

The School curriculum includes an Outdoor Education program for all students in Years 6 to 11. The School provides Cadet uniforms and equipment however students are required to purchase additional outdoor equipment at their own cost. A full list of requirements is provided to students at the commencement of each year.

Excursion Week

The Excursion Week program is regarded as part of the normal curriculum for all students in Years 6 to 10. The program enables students to further their learning and social skills development in a non-school setting. Costs vary between year groups and activities. Parents will be notified of costs in advance.

Family Discount

Sibling discounts are available from Transition to Year 12. Where a family is receiving fees assistance or discounted fees, the sibling discount will not apply. The sibling discount is applied to tuition fees only at the rate of 2nd child -20%, 3rd child - 30%, 4th child and additional children- 40%

Withdrawal of a Student

One full term’s notice must be given to the Head of School in writing, prior to the removal of a student from the School, otherwise one half term’s tuition and boarding fees (where relevant) will be charged.

General

No remission of fees is available if a student is absent from school through illness or injury. Insurance cover is available to cover this type of misfortune. In addition the Head of School reserves the right to suspend or terminate an enrolment and no remission of fees will be made in the case of suspension or removal of a student for unacceptable conduct or failure to pay fees.

Terms of Payment

Tuition and boarding fees are invoiced in four instalments each year (three instalments for parents with students in Year 12) and are payable by the end of the first week of each Term. Special arrangements for lump sum payments of fees in advance may be made. In each case written application is to be made to the Business Manager with payment due by 1 November of the preceding year. A payment charge may be applied if the account is not paid according to the payment terms. Parents are requested to advise the Business Manager immediately in case of hardship and special arrangements may be made.

Default Charges may be applied if the account is not paid according to the payment terms. Parents are requested to advise the Business Manager immediately in case of hardship and special arrangements may be made.

Any debt recovery costs relating to the collection of overdue accounts are borne collectively and individually by the signatories to the Enrolment Acceptance Agreement.