What are current prices for good private school in East Bay Area?

[YuryM]

Originally Posted by aslowdodge

You say you live on the east side of the tunnel. Aren't most if not all of the schools in Lamorinda pretty highly rated? Why would you spend more $ on a private school?

We are not in Lamorinda. Currently we live in Walnut Creek with decent schools, but going to buy house in Concord where schools are way worse.

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by YuryM

I live on the "other" side of the Berkeley hills. Do you think it is worth to bring kids so far? Well, my question is rather about a price, I just need to be aware of possible costs, how much per month for this Bentley School for instance? Thanks

Yury, don't you think it might be worth it to pay a little more for a house to be in, say, Walnut Creek, and be able to send your kids to public school, than pay a lot of annual tuition to a private school, and live farther out? I guess you've considered the economics of this...?

[aslowdodge]

Originally Posted by YuryM

We are not in Lamorinda. Currently we live in Walnut Creek with decent schools, but going to buy house in Concord where schools are way worse.

I see your point. Concord is a good deal for a house now, but the schools aren't great. If you are going to fork out 15K a year or more for a private school ( don't forget many expect you to donate more) wouldn't that cover a bigger mortgage one of the other Tri Valley areas or stay in Walnut Creek? Not to mention buying in a better area is a better quality of life usually and probably better appreciation.

If you have more than one kid it makes even more sense.

[jrb724]

Definitely something to consider as buying a home & sending children to private school are huge financial decisions. Especially if you have or are planning to have more than 1 child attend K-12 private schools.

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Yury, don't you think it might be worth it to pay a little more for a house to be in, say, Walnut Creek, and be able to send your kids to public school, than pay a lot of annual tuition to a private school, and live farther out? I guess you've considered the economics of this...?

[YuryM]

Originally Posted by Ruth4Truth

Yury, don't you think it might be worth it to pay a little more for a house to be in, say, Walnut Creek, and be able to send your kids to public school, than pay a lot of annual tuition to a private school, and live farther out? I guess you've considered the economics of this...?

It might be worth to live in good schools area, I am not sure yet, that is why I asked this question, I need to estimate home price difference for type of property I wish to buy, and match the difference to private school education costs. The education cost seems to be 20K a year * 12 years of education for our single kid = $240K, though need to note is you do not pay taxes, PMI and interest, from other side tutition costs tend to rise in the US, so it is always tradeoff

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by YuryM

It might be worth to live in good schools area, I am not sure yet, that is why I asked this question, I need to estimate home price difference for type of property I wish to buy, and match the difference to private school education costs. The education cost seems to be 20K a year * 12 years of education for our single kid = $240K, though need to note is you do not pay taxes, PMI and interest, from other side tutition costs tend to rise in the US, so it is always tradeoff

Yes, I was coming up with a figure of approx. $25,000/yr. for private school on the quick research I did.

[Sphere]

There is also the issue of the public school "way of thinking". They're mostly to the left on most issues, and as an independent, that worries me. Especially later, but it seems to start earlier than I would expectmod cut.

mod cutdon't expect much critical thinking in the public schools, it's more likely to form more "occupy protesters" than a new generation of skeptical engineers and scientists, if you ask me.

So you pretty much set yourself up for reviewing more of what you're kids are exposed to when you go public. I'm considering going to a private school in the middle school, but we'll see.

[pasdenombt]

I looked at private school tuition for elementary about 2 years ago. Much like people have said, Catholic school tuition runs about 7-10K while other private schools go as high as 25-30k. I only looked around Dublin, Pleasanton, San Ramon, Danville so not sure about Concord but they would be pretty much similar.

[socalinnorcal]

I think it would be far smarter to find a home within Lamorinda (or another area with highly ranked schools) and send your kids to public schools rather than buy in Concord and know that you have private school tuition hanging over your head for years to come. Private school tuition is going to run you approx. $25-30K PER YEAR and if you're starting in elementary school that's a LOT of money you're forking over (with no appreciation possible like you could have in real estate).

[Larry Siegel]

Originally Posted by Sphere

There is also the issue of the public school "way of thinking". They're mostly to the left on most issues, and as an independent, that worries me. Especially later, but it seems to start earlier than I would expectmod cut.

mod cutdon't expect much critical thinking in the public schools, it's more likely to form more "occupy protesters" than a new generation of skeptical engineers and scientists, if you ask me.

So you pretty much set yourself up for reviewing more of what you're kids are exposed to when you go public. I'm considering going to a private school in the middle school, but we'll see.

I am the product of a private school education and thought the quality was superb, but what makes you think that private school teachers are not overwhelmingly leftists?