Spurred on by the OP I went and had a look at their website. Their fees are actually nowhere near as high as I always imagined. For instance fees for an 11 year old at the Royal Ballet School in Richmond Park Surrey, are £30,000 a year. The training takes 8 years. Although you are assessed annually and if not good enough have to leave. However the vast majority of pupils there go there on an MDS; a Music and Dance Scheme which is an award paid by the Government for outstandingly gifted youngsters.[ Also Elmhurst School for Dance in Birmingham, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and the Hammond School,Chester]. I think at all of those top classical ballet schools nearly every pupil there gets financial assistance. You're accepted on the basis of correct physical aptitude and talent alone.