The “Qalamro-ye Refah” website reported that the number of private schools in Iran over three decades has increased 64-fold, while the share of education from the public expenditures of the government has fallen from about 19% in 1370 (1991/1992) to 10% in 1398 (2019/2020).

According to this report, the floor tuition for private schools in the current academic year is about 30 million tomans. The ceiling tuition in Tehran, taking into account supplementary courses, has been set at 172 million tomans for primary level, 200 million tomans for lower secondary, and 220 million tomans for upper secondary.

Qalamro-ye Refah wrote that the share of the two lowest-income deciles among the top ranks in the university entrance exam is 3.4%, while the share of the two wealthiest deciles is 54%.

This website also compared private school tuition with workers’ minimum wages. Based on this report, the monthly minimum base pay of workers in 1405 (2026/2027) is about 16.6 million tomans, and the total for one year is a little more than 199 million tomans.

Qalamro-ye Refah wrote that this figure is less than the 220 million toman ceiling tuition for one year of study at the upper secondary level in Tehran. It also said that the 30 million toman floor tuition for private schools is equivalent to about 1.8 times a worker’s monthly base pay, and it does not include ancillary costs such as transportation by school bus, clothing, and food.