Step A

NOTE: Children at private school and at fees-free schools cannot be included in these calculations.

Click on the buttons to calculate the totals for the various sections.

Number of children in public fee-charging schools:

Consider only the MOST expensive child.

Fees

Note: Some schools may require payments for up to 10 months and while others require 11 or 12 months, so please ensure that you've checked yours carefully.

Monthly Fees: R  Months Per Year: R 

or

Total Annual Fees: R 

Additional Cost

Note: Additional costs are monetary contributions demanded by the school above the cost of fees. This is usually for sports uniforms or school trips but not normal school uniforms.

1st Additional Cost: R  2nd Additional Cost: R  3rd Additional Cost: R  Total Additional Cost R 

Note: These are rolling totals until properly calculated.

Total Schooling Cost R 

Salaries

Note: Only biological parents or legal gaurdians income should be calculated and not that of aunts, boyfriends, grandparents or any other family member living at the same residence.

Mothers Salary: R  Fathers Salary: R  1st Additional Income: R  2nd Additional Income: R  R  Thirteenth Cheque: R 

Note: These are rolling totals until properly calculated.

R 

Step B

Correspond the Fee Exemption number in the left-hand column with the number of children

For example 3 children in the same school at 7% Fee Exemption get 86% discount.

If your exemption is 7.2 you should get 79% off your school fees, if you have 1 child.

If your exemption is 7.2 you should get 89% off your school fees, if you have 5 children

Number of children

Fee exemption	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
2.0	0	0	0	0	0	11	20	27	33	38
2.5	0	0	0	14	25	33	40	45	50	54
3.0	0	7	22	33	42	48	53	58	61	64
3.5	7	26	38	47	54	59	63	66	69	71
4.0	25	40	50	57	63	67	70	73	75	77
4.5	39	51	59	65	69	73	76	78	80	81
5.0	50	60	67	71	75	78	80	82	83	85
5.5	59	67	73	77	80	82	84	85	86	87
6.0	67	73	78	81	83	85	87	88	89	90
6.5	73	78	82	85	87	88	89	90	91	91
7.0	79	83	86	88	89	90	91	92	93	93
7.5	83	87	89	90	92	93	93	94	94	95
8.0	88	90	92	93	94	94	95	95	96	96
8.5	91	93	94	95	96	96	96	97	97	97
9.0	94	96	96	97	97	98	98	98	98	98
9.5	97	98	98	98	99	99	99	99	99	99
10.0	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

Step C

Fill in the Percentage discount here   % Total amount deducted: R  And the total due is: R 

Note: These are rolling totals until properly calculated.

Automatic exemptions (the Regulations, Section 1) are available to:

1. A person who has the responsibility of a parent in respect of a child placed in:
   • A foster home;
   • a youth care centre;
   • a place of safety; or
   • an orphanage;
   
   
2. A person who is a kinship caregiver of an orphan or of a child who:
   • has been abandoned by his or her parents; and
   • is without any visible means of support
   
   
3. A person who receives a social grant on behalf of a child; or
   
4. A child who heads a household or is part of a child headed household.
   

Calculator designed by Phillipa Tucker of the Education Law Project at CALS.