Sibling Discount Request Letter

When and how to use this letter

Raise this request at the time of the second child's admission, not years later. Sibling discounts are almost never applied retroactively to past terms, so the admission season is your window. Address the letter to the principal, and give both children's full names, classes, and roll numbers so the accounts office can link the two records without a second round of correspondence. If the school has a published fee policy, read it first, since some schools print the sibling slab right in the fee booklet.

Frame the request around loyalty and retention. Schools offer sibling discounts for one commercial reason: keeping both children enrolled for years is worth more than the discount costs. Saying plainly that both children will continue at the school through their schooling years speaks the management's language. Keep the tone warm rather than demanding, since this is a request for a privilege, not a claim of a right.

The point most parents miss: ask the office directly whether a sibling policy exists before assuming it does not. Many schools grant 10 to 25 percent off the younger child's tuition but never advertise it, and the discount is simply never applied unless a parent asks. If the school truly has no policy, ask whether a one-time goodwill concession is possible for families with two enrolled children. Get any approval in writing on the fee slip, because verbal promises at the counter are forgotten by the next term.

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