More than 20 private schools will charge fees above $35,000 this year as rising tuition costs spark calls for a cap.
Parents will be hit with the biggest average private school fee increase in five years, with 20 schools now charging more than $35,000 a year for tuition.
Mid-fee schools have followed suit, with Bacchus Marsh Grammar and Ballarat Clarendon College raising fees by about 5 per cent. A Glenhuntly mother-of-three, who wished to remain anonymous, sends her daughter to Mount Scopus Memorial College for prep but has opted to remove her two primary school-aged sons due to the cost.
Deakin University senior education lecturer Emma Rowe said there was nothing capping private school fees in Australia and that schools increased their fees because they could.
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