Fees

Killarney is a community based not-for-profit preschool and is a registered charity with the ability to provide tax deductible receipts for all donations to the school’s building fund. We are dependent on the payment of school fees to cover general running expenses incurred by the School, such as teachers’ salaries, teaching resources and expenses, office and administration costs, insurances and maintenance.  We have been providing education to children for over 120 years and we aim to offer reasonable fees for a high quality education.

2025 Fee Relief Program

The NSW Government introduced a fee relief funding support package which came into effect on 1 January 2023 and will continue in 2025. The fee relief program aims to reduce the cost of early childhood education and care to families in the form of fee-pass through. The funding is provided for the purpose of reducing the daily tuition fee as much as possible for 600 hours per year of enrolment for eligible children. Please note that this is not means tested and is available to every enrolled child. 

A child cannot access a fee relief payment from more than one community preschool or long day care service. If you child attends, or will attend, a centre other than Killarney in 2025, you will need to choose which centre you access the fee relief payment from. 

2025 Daily Tuition Fee

Our tuition fee structure is reviewed each year by the Board. Effective Term 1 2025, the daily tuition fee before fee relief will be as follows:

• $94.27 per day for children who are 3 on 31 July 2025 (‘3 year olds’)

• $83.55 per day for children who are 4 on or before 31 July 2025 (‘4 year olds’)

Tuition fees after fee relief are as follows:

• $48.21 per day for 3 day group children 

• $41.14 per day for 2 day group children who are 4 on or before 31 July 2025 

• $51.86 per day for 2 day group children who are 4 after 31 July 2025

Fee Components

All matters regarding fees are treated as confidential. Invoices are sent out via Xero during week 1 of each term and fees are payable within 14 days of receiving the invoice.  Fees are payable for public holidays and sick days. No fees are charged during the school holidays.

In addition to the above-mentioned tuition fee, invoices comprise the following additional components:

1. Maintenance Levy – a $100 levy will be applied to all invoices each term to ensure that the school is maintained to a satisfactory standard. An annual tax-deductible receipt will be issued to all parents by 30 June.

2. Parent Committee Levy – Term 1 and 2 tuition invoices include a compulsory charge to cover the cost of our annual fundraiser. A charge of $120 will appear on both these tuition invoices. Single parent families will be invoiced for Term 1 only.

3. Key FOB – a fob is required to access the front door of the school during opening hours. All new families will be charged $30 per fob. If you would like to purchase additional fobs, please speak to a member of staff. For security purposes, please ensure all fobs are returned to the school on completion of enrolment. A refund of $10 per FOB will be provided upon return.

4. Incursion /excursion fee – in previous years, parents were charged an upfront $100 levy for incursions and an additional $200 for language lessons in the 3-day group. From 2025, there will no longer be an upfront charge. Any externally provided incursions or excursions that the children participate in will be invoiced as they occur. Please note that the charge per child will not exceed $100 for 2-day children or $300 for 3-day children. 

5. Sundry fee - an amount of $30 is charged to the Term 1 invoice to cover the cost of the Christmas lunch for the children ($10), the Mother’s Day stall ($10) and Father’s Day stall ($10).