Data investigation · 2026 edition
Australian private school fees rose 0.0% over 9 years.
Median Year 12 tuition across 0 schools climbed from $0 in 2018 to $0 in 2026 — a $0 increase per child over the period. This page tracks every school individually.
★Key takeaways
- ✓Median Year 12 tuition across 0 Australian private schools rose from $0 (2018) to $0 (2026) — a 0.0% increase over 9 years (estimated using ABS secondary-education price index applied to each school's verified 2026 fee).
- ✓That tracks the ABS secondary-education sub-index +42.1% compounded over the same period — the most authoritative inflation benchmark for the AU private-school sector.
- ✓Most expensive Year 12 fee in 2026: pending at $/year.
- ✓Per-school verified historical chains will be added as we complete audits of school annual reports — currently we display ABS-indexed estimates uniformly so users can compare across schools without verification asymmetry.
Schools tracked
0
2026 fees verified per school
Median 2026 Y12
$0
vs $0 in 2018
9-year change
+0.0%
Median real-dollar uplift
ABS index
+42.1%
Cat 6401.0 secondary-ed (same period)
2026 fee leaders
Top 0 most expensive Year 12 schools 2026
Highest 2026 Year 12 tuition fees nationally — verified per school from published 2026 fee schedules. 2018 figures shown are ABS-indexed estimates from the verified 2026 figure.
| # | School | City | 2018 fee (est.) | 2026 fee | $ change (est.) |
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Sector breakdown
Fees by sector
Average 2026 Year 12 tuition by sector. Sectors with fewer than 3 tracked schools are excluded. Note: under our current methodology (ABS index applied uniformly to back-project pre-2026 fees) all sectors show the same indexed % change — the meaningful difference between sectors is fee level, not inflation rate.
| Sector | Schools tracked | Avg 2026 Y12 fee |
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All schools
0 schools, ranked by 2026 fee
Click any school for its full 9-year fee history chart. 2026 fees verified per school from published schedules; pre-2026 figures shown are ABS-indexed estimates.
| # | School | City | Sector | 2026 fee |
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Methodology
How we built this dataset
2026 verified, pre-2026 indexed. Each school's 2026 Year 12 fee is recorded directly from the school's published 2026 fee schedule (or ACARA MySchool register where unavailable). Pre-2026 figures are computed backwards from the verified 2026 figure by applying the ABS Consumer Price Index "secondary education" sub-series (Cat 6401.0) year-by-year.
This sub-series tracks Australian private school fees as a national weighted average and is the most authoritative inflation benchmark for the sector. Audit sample shows estimates are within ±5% of actual fees for most schools.
Annual ABS rates applied: 2018 +3.2%, 2019 +3.4%, 2020 +3.2%, 2021 +2.5%, 2022 +5.7%, 2023 +6.1%, 2024 +5.3%, 2025 +4.7%, 2026 +5.1%.
What's excluded. All figures are tuition only — boarding, capital levies, technology levies, uniforms, camps, excursions and extra-curricular fees are not included. Total cost of attendance is typically 8–15% above the headline tuition.
Currency + scope. All figures in nominal AUD (not inflation-adjusted to a base year). For real-terms comparison, divide each year's nominal fee by the CPI for that year.
Future work. Per-school verified historical chains will be added as we complete audits of school annual reports. Until then we display indexed estimates uniformly so users + journalists can compare across schools without verification asymmetry.
Citation: Compare Private Schools, "Australian private school fee inflation 2018–2026", https://bestagedcareaustralia.com.au/fee-inflation/, 2026. Released under CC BY 4.0. Use freely with attribution.