High School Yearbooks

[tbb113]

For those of you who have current high school students, what does your yearbook cost this year? I just paid $110.00 and am feeling very shell shocked!

[Gecko]

OMG . Are the pages edged with gold? We paid $25 at our youngest DD's school which is a public middle school. For our older DD's it is included in the tuition. I doubt it is $110 but I don't really know for sure. I think that I had heard that someone ordered one after their daughter left the school and it was $40.

[tbb113]

Nope, just your standard yearbook, last year's book was about 285 pages including the pages that the senior parents can pay for if they want to include a baby picture of the graduating senior with a personal message. I don't remember that cost since I wasn't interested (bad mother I know )

[melissak85]

I graduated high school in 2003, but I think the most I ever paid was $50! Our yearbook did have ads in it though.

[1grl1by]

Originally Posted by tbb113

For those of you who have current high school students, what does your yearbook cost this year? I just paid $110.00 and am feeling very shell shocked!

They charge more the later in the year you wait to order it. Dh looked at it (while I was writing the check) and said there is advertising in the back.

Our middle school ones were $15, but they werer more magazine bound than book bound like the hs one. The high school one was fairly thick.

[Cafe Latte]

WOW - I'm speechless! We just paid $41 for my freshman at a school with about 2200 students. What is the size of your HS? I'd think the larger the school, the cheaper per student price it should be. I'm not sure how many pages we're looking at. DS1 went off to college and wasn't able to p/u his yearbook from last year as they are just available now

[Shugness]

I graduated in 2001 - I don't remember how much our year book was, but it wasn't that high. I'm thinking it wasn't under $50 but wasn't over $80. Ours also had a bunch of advertisements from local businesses and about 50 pages worth of the seniors and their personal pictures their parents submitted. I remember that was kind of expensive - just to have a bare minimum, 1 picture, quarter of a page was probably $50.

My school actually had a big group of students who did all the real work of taking the pictures, designing the book, laying it all out- I don't know if that was an after-school or extra activity type of class or whether they actually got credits for it though. BUT, the point I'm making is there wasn't any labor expense for their time. I think the bulk of the expense was in having them printed.

I suspect my school was using their yearbook profits - which includes the advertisement money, senior pages money and profits from selling them- to fund other things - home coming, prom, etc. Sounds like that's what your kids school is doing too - but $110 is too high.

[Beth]

Ours last year was $65 if you ordered it early in the fall and I paid $75 because DS said he was only going to get one for freshman and senior years -- until he went to state and globals for DI and some other things. I'm glad it wasn't more now.

[macro_grp02]

I finished my high school in 1998. I don't think I paid more than $20. Am I too old or is inflation really that bad?

[Ann1965]

My hs freshman's yearbook is costing us $60.00 for just the yearbook, none of the extras they offer, like engraving or emblems. I've paid over $200 in fees, supplies and such, so yearbook will have to wait until another paycheck rolls around!

[tbb113]

Its a regular hardbound yearbook. No paid advertisements other than the senior baby pictures. School has about 1500 students (I think). It is also put together primarily by the kids.

I (obviously) live in a 'rich' suburb and I guess they think we can afford it. I don't think it subsides anything but I could be wrong. Grad Night is $135.00 in advance at registration, $160.00 if I waited. Cost of living is just high here in Danville

[kgraham]

I think its a California thing

I graduated from high school in 1989 from a school in the San Fernando Valley and our yearbook cost $60 then. I can imagine its over $100 by now.

[MusicMom]

DD's high school yearbook was about $50 for a school of 1200 students last year. There were some paid ads in the back, mainly from parents.

We just received the promo for class rings from DS's college- $299-$799 Thankfully, I don't think he'll want one that bad.

[DanaSD]

Ours was $25 (my son is in preschool but the school goes up to 8th grade). I wouldn't have ordered it but they didn't give us a choice as it was put in the student fees. It was a soft cover and spiral bound as opposed to the hard cover high school books.

Thats a high price. Way back when I went to school it was around $40 and my mom made me pay for it myself. Class ring would have been up to me too and she suggested I not get it because once I got to college she didn't think I would want to wear it anymore (and she was right).

[kaygee1]

SD just finished 9th grade & hers was $100. She tried to say it was $120 & she said she told us that because she wanted to spend the $20 on "vegetables". True story.