Wednesday, January 13, 2010

How Much Is Tuition Going Up Every Year? (Frisch)

First the bad news: It seems I hit the jackpot with JKHA/RKYHS.  They are the only school for which I have been able to find significant historic tuition data.  It seems most schools have never posted this information in the past or were not technologically hip enough to have a website in the past.  Another school (Moriah) actually designs its site in a way to prevent google and archiver websites from accessing the tuition data (not sure if this is done purposefully or not).

Now, the good news: I found some data for Frisch, which I will post below.  Another piece of good news, is that it seems that more and more yeshivas are posting their tuition data online, many for seemingly the first time in 2009-2010 (though not nearly enough are doing so).  I will likely put together another post at some point comparing tuition data from a range of schools.  If anyone out there should have tuition data or can point me to where to access it, please let me know.

Data is accessible here:
2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010.

Here's the raw data:
 

2006-2007

2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010
9th-12th
$17,700

$19,800

$22,150

$22,750
In addition, every year there is a per family charge of $750.  Finally, there is $5,000 payable to Frisch for a Building Fund ($2,500) and a Capital Fund ($2,500), which is one-time, per family.  There is also a $150 "graduation fee" for 12th graders.  These numbers have not changed since 2006-2007.  

Thus, the year to year increases are:


2006-2007
  to
2007-2008
  to
2008-2009
  to
2009-2010
9th-12th

11.86%

11.87%

2.71%


So, at least for the period over which data is available, Frisch has had annual increases of 8.81% if you count the last year in which tuition "only" went up 2.71%.  More likely (and I imagine more data would prove this), Frisch increases their tuition 11.86% every year.

6 comments:

Lion of Zion said...

i don't know what to say except to repeat what i commented on your previous post: holy crap.

Lion of Zion said...

i don't see an email for you. please email me at arisblog@yahoo.com

Anonymous said...

Apparently it is assur for frum people to be poor or middle-class :-(

Mark

Tuition Talk said...

Lion,

I will email you. My email is tuitiontalk at gmail dot com.

You can also find it in "About Me." Maybe it's not prominent enough though.

Anonymous said...

Someone posted a while back on one of the other blogs what the principal at Frisch was earning. It was something like $250,000-$300,000. I find it totally unconscionable to be paying a principal that sum of money when so many people are literally struggling to make ends meet

Tuition Talk said...

Anonymous,

Stay tuned. I am working on a post that will attempt to figure out why tuition rates are so high. Administrator salaries will be looked into as well.