2025 – 2026
Boarding Fees per term: £20,000
Day Fees per term: £14,800
Fees in Advance Scheme
Once an offer letter has been received, confirming your child’s place at the school, a lump sum may be paid in advance of your child’s entry, covering up to five years of fees for the school, and providing a discount on the full fees. The deposit remains payable if you decide to participate in the fees in advance scheme.
Contact the Finance Team for more information.
Financial Support
Winchester offers an extensive programme of means-tested financial support. Financial support must be requested upon registration. It is only in exceptional cases of hardship, where a family has experienced significant and unexpected changes to their circumstances, that we will consider temporary financial support for a pupil who is already at the school.
We also award Scholarships and Exhibitions for those pupils with exceptional academic, musical or sporting talent. Scholarships and Exhibitions do not carry an automatic remission on school fees. However, free individual tuition is provided for sports scholars and musicians.
Registration
The registration forms, and deadlines for applying, are set out on our 13+ and 16+ admissions pages. A non-refundable fee of £480 is payable upon registration.
If your son or daughter qualifies for free school meals, please indicate this on the registration form. The registration fee will then be waived in its entirety, once supporting evidence has been supplied.
If your son or daughter does not qualify for free school meals, but you have any concerns about paying the registration fee, please contact the Admissions team here.
Acceptance of conditional offer
For those pupils joining us in Year 9, a fee of £2,000 is paid when you accept the conditional offer of a place by 1 July of Year 6. This fee will be credited to your Spring Term invoice in your child’s first year. It is, however, not refundable if you decline the place, having accepted and paid the fee.
Deposit
A deposit is paid in Year 8 on acceptance of your child’s place. For UK resident parents, the deposit is £4,000, and for non-UK resident parents, the deposit is £20,000. The deposit will be refunded within three months of your child leaving the school, less any outstanding fees or extras if applicable.
For those pupils joining us in the Sixth Form, the deposit is payable at the point of signing the parent contract.
Pupils requiring a student visa
An annual charge of £1,440 will be payable for each pupil requiring Winchester College to support a Child Student Visa or Student Visa application.
This charge covers the additional costs to the school of supporting those pupils, including Visa applications, administration, monitoring and reporting requirements. The school must adhere to these compliance standards as set out by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) as a condition of its continued ability to support student visa applications.
Please find below details of typical extra charges which may be included on your child’s school account. These details are not necessarily exhaustive but are intended to provide a best indication and external costs may increase outside our control during the year.
Laptop Charges
A laptop is required for all pupils. The school will provide this at point of joining and the cost of the device is currently spread across your first three bills.
Laptop charges for each entry year are communicated in the Summer preceding entry.
Exam Charges
Charged to pupils based on the number and type of exams. If a pupil asks for an exam paper to be reviewed this will be charged at cost. Should the result improve the grade, the cost will be refunded.
Exam costs – variable as determined by the individual exam boards. Typically, each set of GCSE and A-Level entries will cost £500-£1,000.
Music Lessons
Charges are per term based on 10 lessons per term averaged over the year.
Lesson Costs per term (2025-2026):
£417.60 for 30 minutes per week
£550.80 for 40 minutes per week
£784.80 for 60 minutes per week
LAMDA
Private LAMDA lesson charges start at £30 for 30 minutes, termly costs can therefore be between £200 to £350. Group lessons are available at a reduced cost.
LAMDA exam fees are set by LAMDA and vary depending on grade and examination type. These are charged at cost.
CCF
One-off starter kit charge, inclusive of boots (2025-2026 charge of £45).
Replacement kit charged at cost as required.
Sports kit + Equipment
All pupils will be expected to wear school PE kit. Certain optional sports will require specific kit or equipment to take part (e.g. rowing, rackets and first team sports clothing).
Optional Trips
e.g. language exchanges, sports camps, Duke of Edinburgh, enrichment, CCF camps
Trips are charged at cost. The cost of each trip depends on the purpose and destination.
Non-refundable deposits are required to secure a place on each trip.
Withdrawals: School trips are billed in full in advance. If you have made stage payments prior to withdrawing, these funds will also be non-refundable to the extent costs have been committed and we are unable to source a replacement student.
Books & Stationery
We do not charge pupils for books or stationery required as part of the curriculum.
Books ordered for extra-curricular, Div or optional activities will be charged at cost. Charges may be incurred for lost or damaged books.
