Your child's student number

When you need this

Your child's school gives every child a student number. You need it each time you pay school fees, so the school knows which child the money is for. This page tells you where to find it and what it means.

Steps

1. Find the number. It is on the slip or letter the school gave you when your child was registered, or when the school started using student numbers. It looks like this: 101-26-1234-5.
2. No slip? Ask the school office. They can tell you your child's number.
3. Check it has ten digits. Leave out the dashes and count: 1012612345 has ten.
4. Save it somewhere handy, for example in your phone's notes or contacts, next to your child's name. If you have more than one child at the school, each child has their own number. Save each one.

What you should see

A number with four parts, separated by dashes:

Part	Example	What it means
School	101	Your child's school. Every school has its own three digits.
Year	26	The school year your child joined. For a child already at the school when it started using numbers, this is the school's best estimate. That's fine: the number still works.
Running number	1234	Your child's own number for that year.
Check digit	5	A last digit worked out from the others. If one digit is typed wrong, the number no longer adds up, so the money can't go to another child by mistake.

The dashes are only there to make it easy to read. The number is the digits.

The number stays the same for as long as your child is at the school. It does not change when your child moves up a class, changes stream, or moves between boarding and day school. Keep using the same number.

Keep it safe, but it is not a password. Anyone who has the number can pay fees for your child, which is fine. It does not let anyone see your child's details or your account.

If something goes wrong

• You can't find the number: ask the school office. Don't guess it, and don't use another child's number.
• Your number has letters in it, or a different number of digits: you may have an old number from before the school changed systems. Ask the school office for the new student number.
• Two of your children seem to have the same number: that can't be right. Each child has their own. Ask the school office to check.
• The year part is not the year your child joined: nothing is wrong. Keep using the number exactly as the school gave it to you.