How much do yearbooks cost at your child's High School?

[JanaNs]

My daughter is not graduating this year but would like to get a yearbook anyway. I said sure and then she told me it was 45 bucks!!! Good Lord! Seems a little steep to me, or is that the going rate?

 

[TaraPA]

That's cheap compared to our school, the high school yearbook is $75. Middle School is $20 and Elementary is $10.

 

[LisaNJ25]

HS is $90

 

[happygirl]

HS is $90

Time sure have changed when I was in high school they were 25 and that was for one with all the bells and whistles

 

[sms]

My DS yearbook for Kindergarten was $25!!! For a paperback!!

 

[hellokitty86]

HS is $90

That was how much mine costed too (all 4 years). I graduated 4 years ago.

 

[NHdisneylover]

15 Euro (about $21) for a paperback that is 28 pages long (but in full color) for a small K-10th grade school of just about 100 students.

I have never heard of only graduates getting yearbooks. I got one for each year of high school as did DH.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

$100.00 due this July for next year when DS will be a freshman!!

 

[carole88]

$95.00 but at least it is in color!

 

[Stitchfans]

I paid $40 for DD's she "was" a freshman in H.S. this fall a sophmore

 

[JanaNs]

WOW! Well ok, I guess I got off easy! The last time I bought a yearbook was when I graduated in '88.

 

[ms.yt]

I am the yearbook adviser at my school. We went up to $40 prepaid price this year from $35 because we are having an all color book for the first time. We produce a 160 page book that covers PK-12. We have about 850 students in our district.

From what I've heard interacting with other advisers, we are a fairly low priced book. I hear prices in the $70-$90 range most frequently. I think most people have no idea how much money it takes to produce a yearbook. Our book, which we purposely keep small and as no-frills as possible, costs about $20,000 a year to produce. We make about half that in ad sales, but the rest has to come from book sales.

 

[mamacatnv]

DS's book last year was $90 - His Freshman, soph & Jr. years were $85
I will admit tho that it was a very nice yearbook and upon seeing them the cost was a little more justified in my mind. His Sr. book was really well done and won awards.

The bigger kicker was the "Sr. Page" at $375 but it did include a yearbook w/ engraved name.

 

[ORMom2Four]

$60 for our kids high school yearbook

 

[Doe]

HS is $60 or $65 with your name engraved. JH is $22.

 

[PirateSnowmen]

Ours was $65 if you paid in advance (it was back in September or October - they announced when you could buy it for $65), but after that it was $75

 

[kacaju]

$95 my freshman dd did not get one

 

[december]

$50, and it is for k-12. I buy one every year, just as my mother did for us. I've never heard of just buying it as a senior.

It is only that cheap because the yearbook staff does a ton of fundraisers throughout the year.

 

[Becky2005]

I think it's $50 for High School, which I thought was average cost.

I haven't gotten the HS registration forms yet to know for sure. I can't remember how much it was last registration. We get the yearbooks the following year, so we haven't gotten Freshman one yet. It was the same way when I was in High School, so it seems typical as it has been in the past here.

I know my DD thinks it's weird since grade school through 8th grade you get them at the end of the school year. That's OK because I think grade school yearbooks are weird, we never had those. What they got in grade school is what we got in Jr. High, soft-bound black & white book. Middle School here has hard-bound ones.

 

[PatsGirl]

DD came home with her middle school (6th grade) yearbook today It cost $15 which I was reluctant to pay because I thought maybe we should just be buying one yearbook in 8th grade before high school. I'm really glad I gave her the money! There are only 200 kids in her school and the yearbook was very cute, paperback but all colored pictures and special pages for "signings" and bound quite nicely.