A non-refundable fee of £60 (£100 for overseas applications) is charged to process each student’s application, except for nursery and pre-school. This fee is inclusive of VAT.

When you accept a place at Portsmouth High School, we ask for an acceptance deposit of £500 to accept and secure the place. This deposit is refunded after a pupil has left (after deducting any outstanding amounts due to the school or the Trust). This fee is not returned if a pupil is withdrawn after the place has been accepted.

Fees can be paid monthly or termly via direct debit. You will be asked to complete a direct debit form when you sign the contract and accept the place.

Fees at Portsmouth High School cover all tuition, textbooks, scientific materials and external careers advice. Public examination fees are charged as an extra cost in accordance with GDST policy and are added to the summer term fees for Year 11 and Year 13.

Wraparound care in the Prep, Nursery and Pre-School is included at no extra charge from 7.30am to 6.00pm every day during term-time for all children attending more than 30 hours per week. Wraparound care for children attending less than 30 hours in the Nursery and Pre-School is available charged at £5 for Breakfast Club (7.30am to 8.30am) and £6.80 per hour or £3.40 per half hour after school up until 6.00pm.

Whenever possible, we will offer a term’s notice of the intention to increase the fees for tuition, lunch or extra subjects. However, if circumstances arise in which costs (e.g. substantial increases in teachers’ salaries) have to be recouped immediately, the Council of the Trust may be forced to increase fees at less than a term’s notice.

Parents with three or more children at the school at the same time will be eligible for a discount of 20% off fees for the third (and any subsequent) child. The discount will remain with the pupil until they leave the school.

Lunch costs are charged separately and for the 2025/2026 academic year they cost £314 per term. Lunches are compulsory for all pupils from reception to Year 11. Sixth form students are able to purchase lunch from the dining room or café.

Co-curricular activities are an integral part of every Portsmouth High School student’s education. With well over 100 co-curricular clubs on offer before school, after school, at lunch times every week, there is plenty on offer.

Your daughter will be encouraged to make new friends and learn new skills in clubs ranging from arts, sports, music to medical and debating.

Termly school fees are broadly inclusive of co-curricular activities. Some clubs run by external providers may incur a fee.

Tuition is available in voice and a wide range of musical instruments both at the senior and prep schools.

As a guide price, music fees are £205 per term but the exact amount may vary depending on the individual external peripatetic music teacher providing the tuition.