Application fees
- The school does not charge an application fee to pupils admitted under municipal arrangements; admission decisions for the international/IB provision are made by the school principals and international applicants are directed to the school's designated admissions partner.
Tuition fees by year group (per term / per year)
- No direct tuition charge is levied on pupils or families for basic education (grades 1–9) or for upper secondary (IB) students who are enrolled through Turku or through municipal arrangements; the operating costs for a pupil's instruction (including teaching, basic materials, school meals, internal administration and facility upkeep) are covered by Turku and, where a pupil's home municipality is a purchaser, those per‑pupil costs are invoiced to that purchaser municipality. Specific per‑pupil amounts are not published as fixed “tuition” rates on the school's public documentation.
Billing schedule and payment terms
- When the school invoices a purchaser municipality, the purchaser-municipality agreement provides for semi‑annual invoicing: invoices are issued for payment by 20 January and 31 July, with payment due 30 days from the invoice date; late payment interest and collection costs may be applied in accordance with Finnish law.
- Under the operational agreement for the international upper secondary provision, the school invoices the City of Turku monthly by the 20th of the current month for costs associated with running the tuition.
Boarding fees (if applicable)
- The school does not operate boarding facilities. Families/guardians are responsible for arranging and funding any required accommodation for pupils unless another party (for example the pupil's home municipality) makes separate arrangements.
Other costs and fees
- IB diploma examination-related fees: the school specifies that all pending fees must be paid for a student to be presented for the final IB examinations; the final examination costs are stated to be approximately EUR 600 per candidate (this is the examination/session cost indicated in school materials).
- IB registration and annual IB organization fees for the school's IB programme are paid by the City of Turku as part of the operating arrangements. Families are not charged separate IB registration fees by the school itself; however, per‑student examination and other individually billed IB fees (such as examination entry) may apply to students.
- Private-language tuition: if a student intends to take a Language A that is not offered in the pre‑DP year, the student must arrange private tuition at their own cost; this is an individually incurred expense.
- School-provided items included in the per‑pupil cost billed to the municipality include teaching with materials and student meals; incidental personal items (uniforms, private tutors, voluntary extracurricular activities run by third parties, travel to/from school, prescribed private lessons) are family expenses unless otherwise arranged.
Refund information
- No school-level public refund schedule for tuition or fees payable by families is published in the school's operational documents reviewed; municipal invoicing and contractual arrangements refer to normal invoicing and legal remedies for non‑payment (late interest, collection). Any questions about refunds for fees charged by a purchaser municipality, or for individually incurred fees (for example private tuition, examination entry fees already paid), are handled under the invoicing party's (municipality or IB/third‑party) terms.
Fee payment options
- Fees and per‑pupil charges are handled by formal invoicing to the purchaser (municipality) or to the City of Turku as specified in contractual arrangements; invoices state payment due dates and the 30‑day payment term for purchaser municipalities. Specific payment methods (for example bank transfer, online card payment, etc.) are not detailed in the school's operational and contractual documents; payment is required according to the invoice's stated terms.
Summary of the practical position for parents
- For pupils resident in Turku or otherwise placed in the school under municipal agreements, parents are not charged direct tuition by the school; instruction, meals and basic materials are covered by municipal funding and billed between public authorities as applicable. Parents should expect possible individually incurred costs such as IB examination fees (approximately EUR 600), private-language tuition when required, and any voluntary extracurricular or personal items. Accommodation (boarding) is not provided by the school and is the responsibility of the family or the arranging municipality.
Note: public operational and contractual documents for the school (municipal purchase agreements and the school's IB programme information) were reviewed to prepare this fee overview; those documents provide billing schedules, the note about examination costs, and the contractual allocation of per‑pupil operating costs, but do not publish a family-facing schedule of term-by-term tuition amounts to parents because instruction is financed through municipal arrangements rather than by direct parent tuition charges.
