Who pays for a Guernsey college place
Pupils at Guernsey's three grant-aided colleges by who paid the fees, from 2019/20 to 2024/25. The States funded 52 Special Place Holders a year, selected on the 11-plus and blind to household income; that scheme closed to new entrants in September 2019. The total roll barely moved. Fee-paying places rose from 864 to 1,217.
Read this with the chart: Two series side by side, not a stack: the taller bar in each pair is the fee-paying roll and the shorter one the States-funded places inside the same total, so the two add to the roll and move against each other. Total places rose only 9% (1,150 to 1,256) across this period; fee-paying places rose 41% because the States-funded group they are measured against was shrinking to nothing. The 41% is not 41% more children in private education. Transcribed from Figures 1, 3, 4 and 5 of the Committee for Education, Sport & Culture's 2025 policy letter, which publishes them as images with no data layer; the totals reconcile against the roll and per-pupil grant figures the letter states in its prose. A stable overall share does not establish that the same children attend: the Year 6 assessments that would allow a before-and-after comparison of college entrants only began in 2022.
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- States of Guernsey, Committee for Education, Sport & Culture, P.2025/26 "Blanchelande College, Elizabeth College & The Ladies' College: Future Funding Arrangements"
- States of Guernsey, "Debate on Future Funding for the Grant-Aided Colleges"
- States of Guernsey, "The Role of the Grant-Aided Colleges and their Future Funding Arrangements" (September 2017)
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