Day Student
Day Student is a student who attends all lessons, meals and activities at a boarding school but sleeps at home with their family. Day places let local families reach a boarding school’s teaching and community without residential fees — and they are the single biggest structural difference between otherwise similar schools.
Key facts
| What | Detail |
|---|---|
| What is shared | Lessons, meals during the day, most activities |
| What is not | Evening study, night-time supervision, weekend life |
| Who it suits | Families living within daily travelling distance |
| Fees | Markedly lower than full boarding, board excluded |
| Variants | Day, flexi boarding, weekly boarding, full boarding |
| Where it is common | Schools with a strong local catchment |
| Where it is absent | Schools whose model depends on the full day |
What a day place does and does not include
A day student sits in the same lessons, eats at the same tables and plays in the same teams. What they do not share is everything after the teaching day: the supervised study period in the evening, the routine around meals and sleep, and the weekend. In schools where most learning support happens in those evening hours, that gap is academic as well as social. The honest question is not whether day places are worse, but which parts of the school’s work happen after four o’clock — and in a school built around a structured full day, that is most of them.
Why some schools do not offer day places at all
A boarding school that also runs day places is managing two different communities in one building. Rules that depend on everyone living the same way — a phone-free campus, a fixed study hour, a shared evening routine — become hard to hold when a third of the students go home at five and return in the morning with a different set of habits.
Schools that treat the whole-day structure as the point of the education therefore often close day places entirely. It costs them local enrolment and it narrows the market; what they get back is one community living under one set of expectations. Our full-day structure and what the fee includes show how that works in practice.
At Schloss Krumbach
Schloss Krumbach International School offers full boarding only. Day and half-boarding programmes were discontinued in 2024, and the reason given is the one above: the school’s commitment to a protected, phone-free, consistently structured childhood only works if it applies to every student every day. The published annual fee of €39,900–€43,680 therefore covers tuition, accommodation, six meals a day, supervised homework and the core activity programme as a single package. Families who need a day place will not find one here, and the Admissions team says so at the first conversation rather than later. Financial support is assessed separately — see scholarships.
Frequently asked questions
Does Schloss Krumbach accept day students?
No. Since 2024 the school offers full boarding only — there are no day or half-boarding places.
Why was the day programme discontinued?
Because the school’s approach — a phone-free campus, a fixed daily structure, supervised study every evening — depends on every student living the same routine. Partial participation weakens it for everyone.
Is there a discount for families living nearby?
No. The fee is a single full-boarding figure covering tuition, accommodation, meals and the core programme. Scholarships are assessed separately.
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