School Fees

The school’s termly fees (inclusive of VAT at 20%), with effect from the Autumn term 2025, are shown below.

Infant School Per term (three terms per year)
Reception: £4,128
Years 1 and 2: £4,512

Junior School Per term (three terms per year)
Years 3 – 6: £4,860

Senior School & Sixth Form Per term (three terms per year)
Years 7 – U6: £7,140

There is a discount of 5% for a second or subsequent sibling attending the Sixth Form, Senior or Junior and Infant Schools. The discount will be shown on the older sibling’s account(s).

What’s included?
The cost of stationery, learning resource/textbook loan and (from Year 3 upwards) iPad/tablet loan is included in the fees.

Lunch
Lunch is provided for all pupils in Reception to Year 11. The charge for this, £288 per term, is exempt from VAT and is included in the figures shown above.

Lunch for Sixth-formers can be purchased in the JCR, where there is be a comprehensive range of hot meals and sandwich options available. A vegetarian option and a salad meal are always available.

Wrap-around care
We offer a free Breakfast Club, open from 7.45am each morning in term time. For pupils in the Infants, a breakfast of cereal or toast is offered free of charge. For pupils in Year 3 and above, the only cost is for breakfast items, chosen from the breakfast menu in our JCR café.

Infant and Junior School after-school care can be booked online on an as needed basis and runs until 5.45pm. There is an annual registration fee per family plus a charge for each session, added to your termly bill.

For Senior School pupils, the Library is available after school until 6pm to enable them to complete homework or other independent study. There is also a supervised room available for pupils who need to remain on site but prefer to relax rather than work immediately after the school day ends.

Methods of payment

The School charges an annual fee but, for convenience, one third of this is payable by the first day of each term. Payment can be made by direct transfer or termly direct debit. Some parents and carers prefer to make monthly payments and we offer this facility through the School Fee Plan*. There is a fee payable for this facility. Further information is available from the School Fee Plan website.

Parents can opt to pay the single termly fee payment by Direct Debit to the School with no interest charge. Details are available from the School Finance Office.

Parents can also pay fees under the Advance Fee Payment Scheme, the discount is 1.5% per annum pro rata and is based on the number of terms the fees are paid in advance. If you wish to consider making advance payments, please contact the Finance Office on 0117 933 9880 or at <fees@bgs.bristol.sch.uk> who will be pleased to assist.

Deposits
An Acceptance Deposit of £300 is payable when you accept the offer of a place (in any year-group) in the Infant School, Junior School, Senior School or Sixth Form. This deposit is refunded, without interest and less any outstanding charges, shortly after a pupil leaves BGS.

Additional charges

Head’s Fund (including VAT)
Infant and Junior School: £2.00
Senior School and Sixth Form £4.00

A termly sum is paid to the Head’s Fund to help subsidise educational trips and visits, and a wide range of other pupil-related activities.

Students’ Personal Accident Insurance Scheme
This is the insurance recommended by the Independent Schools’ Council and BGS – along with many schools throughout the country – has adopted this scheme. The premiums cover accidents during both term-time and the holidays, and benefits are payable in defined circumstances. The premium is £4.60 per term and is a compulsory item. Details of the scheme are included in the information pack sent to parents and carers of students joining BGS.

Parents’ Association Membership
£1.00 is added to the termly bill as a voluntary contribution to the Parents’ Association. The association exists to arrange social and fundraising events to help the school. New parents and carers are welcomed as members; full details about the Parents’ Association and how to get involved are circulated at the start of the school year.

Phone free school
To support our status as a mobile phone free school, pupils in Years 7–11 who choose to bring a mobile phone onto the school site must purchase a Yondr pouch in which their phone must be locked during the school day (8.30am-3.50pm). These are issued by the school early in the term in which a pupil joins, and a surcharge of £25 added onto the bill for the following term. Children who do not have a phone, or will not bring it into school, are issued with an exemption pass.

Examinations
Public examination charges, plus 12% to cover external independent invigilators, will be added to the bill in the Summer term of the year the pupil takes them.

*Bristol Grammar School is an appointed representative of Premium Credit Limited which is Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. *School Fee Plan is a trading style of Premium Credit Limited.