2024 Fee Schedule – MacKillop Catholic College
For more information on Fees, Discounts and other relevant documents please visit the Catholic Education website.
School Fees
Why do Catholic schools have fees?
To provide quality learning environments, Catholic schools have fees to help meet the shortfall in Government funding. Catholic schools strive to keep fees as low as possible. The term ‘school fees’ includes tuition fees and levies. Each school assesses the school levies necessary to meet their individual school and community operation requirements. In doing this they are firstly guided by the diocesan tuition fee set by Catholic Education Services.
Multi-student/school family discount
Families with more than one child in the same or other primary or secondary Catholic schools in the Cairns Diocese receive fee discounts for the second, third and subsequent children.
Pensioner and health care card holder fee discount
In addition to these family and country school discounts that have historically been offered, Cairns Catholic Education offers a means-tested concession card discount. Parents/ carers with a means-tested Australian government health care or pensioner concession card may be eligible to receive a 70% discount to tuition fees (does not apply to school levies). Card holders are required to advise the school of their concession card at enrolment or when the card is gained. Once the card is sighted by the school’s administration, tuition fees for future terms only will be adjusted. This scheme is intended to assist those families who genuinely do not have the financial capacity to pay tuition fees in full.
Special consideration
Families without a means-tested concession card who are experiencing genuine financial hardship in paying fees should speak with the school Principal to apply for special consideration. No child will be denied enrolment due to genuine financial difficulty which has been verified by the school.