Do High Schools get a gate Fee?

In the last 6-years, I have been charged only once (private school in Stockton) for a regular season game. Post season (league and section) always have had a small entrance fee.

I want to say ours are about $3-$5 per person. The school district maintains a very nice facility that all of the high schools play at and revenues are used for the upkeep.

In Illinois, no charge until the playoff games start.

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Originally posted by Infield08:
I want to say ours are about $3-$5 per person. The school district maintains a very nice facility that all of the high schools play at and revenues are used for the upkeep.

Same here a little further north of SA

Summer league was a $3 charge. Parents had passes. We paid at all away games.

I think it is $5 regular season, but we will have to pay. The booster club sells a package deal that covers admission fees for all games. But if we pay at the gate, baseball gets the money directly.

Our county in Georgia has gate fees, $3-$5 depending on if it's a Varsity or JV game.

Here in VA...standard gate is $4.

In Northern Virginia it's $5 to get in.

The game fees at the high school games in the Houston area are between $3 to $5. The money goes to the district - not to the school directly.

On pre-season tournaments hosted by the school, gate fees charged go directly to the baseball program - volunteers work the gate.

Florida games are $3-$5 for regular season and maybe $6 or $7 for Districts.

In my school district, there are so few people who attend, primarily just the parents, that if they charged an admittance fee, then NOBODY would watch. Not even the girlfriends.

Here in NEI have never been to a game where I had to pay a fee other than the playoffs

We pay $3.00 for single games and usually $5.00 for tournaments. Most of the gate money for single games goes to the umpires. Not many parents can attend the weekday games because they are played at 3:30 - 4:00 due to no lighting. We are lucky if we collect enough to pay the umpires.

We charge a small fee - on the order of $3-$5 - for the pre-season tournaments - then the post season also has a fee. No gate fee for league games... not enough attendance to justify someone sitting at the gate!!!

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All the games Iv'e ever been to in NJ are free

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Originally posted by njbb:
All the games Iv'e ever been to in NJ are free

In NJ we have to pay people to come to the games, not the other way around.

5 bucks for the regular season and 6 bucks for playoffs. I have never been to a hs game here in NC where you did not have to pay to get in.

I'm curious, what would a normal crowd be for a regular season game?

You guys in NJ may not charge due to budgets given to your schools (which are run by the towns, right)?

Here programs are run by the county and the budgets are next to nothing. There is a gate fee charged, just like for football, and given back to the school to be divided and used at AD's discretion. It doesn't belong to one team per se.

Tourny gates are seperate and $$ belongs to the team.

Free admission here until playoffs... we do play a few road games where they charge a gate.
This year we are going to have free popcorn because a guy repaid me a favor with a whole bunch of popcorn.... so our place will be a fun place for the fans this year..... Like TO says, "getcha popcorn; gonna be a show!"

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Originally posted by TPM:
You guys in NJ may not charge due to budgets given to your schools (which are run by the towns, right)?

TPM, it's not so much because we are fully funded, (we are also run by a school district) to hear our coach talk there is very little that the school pays for outside of transportation and uniforms.

Most of our baseball budget is supported by fund raising done throughout the year. Last year I believe our operating budget was close to $8,000.

Wow, you are kidding? I thought you guys were rich up there. It ussully takes a bout 20K here to run teh team, but lots of that is on field maintenance.

We don't have the best team but man does our field look great.

I'll find out what a normal crowd is. In 2004, we had a lot of kids who were top prospects in this area, all the schools in the area were doing well in attendance and making money off of their concession stands. Those scouts love to eat. Not sure how it is now.

We charge $3 per game and sell a $25 season pass.

$5.00 for regular season, I believe the money goes to the booster club.

$6.00 for playoffs money goes to state high school athletic association.

Families buy a $50 pass for all games.

In Minnesota, no charge for regular season baseball games, but $3 to $7 per ticket for most other sports (basketball, football, hockey, etc.).

Regular season baseball games probably average about 100 fans in the stands including parents.

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Our school now charges $3.00 per adult (children are free) for the regular season games and the state association requires that we charge $7.00 per person for the district, region and state.

'bout 100 people per game (both sides)

We don't charge at my high school. In fact, nobody in the conference does for baseball. For one thing, our field is not set up so that we would be able to do so. We have fans that literally sit on the sidewalk of a somewhat busy city street!

I can't think of any schools that do charge. I know if we would have played at the minor league stadium last year, they sold tickets.

Regional and sectional tournaments you have to pay.

In NC its $4 admission each game

Ky charges 3.00 for adult and 5.00 during District

$5 in our North Carolina conference - OOC from $3-5

We usually get ~100-200 for games -- for the two rival games (and most competitive) about 400. Run a concession stand that does pretty well.

Also have a golf outing fundraiser...

If you're looking from a fundraising perspective...

In NorCal they are called donations...$10.00 adults, $5.00 students. There is no free lunch.

I saw the post on Northern VA gate fees. accurate.
As far as attendence, it varies heavily based on the weather and opponent.
I have been to games in mid-March (weak opponent and low 40s with drizzle) where we MIGHT have 30 people in the stands.
We played a game against a highly ranked team in May (nice weather too) where there was over 500 people.
Some of our district/region tourney games draw over a 1,000.

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Originally posted by TPM:
Wow, you are kidding? I thought you guys were rich up there. It ussully takes a bout 20K here to run teh team, but lots of that is on field maintenance.

We don't have the best team but man does our field look great.

I'll find out what a normal crowd is. In 2004, we had a lot of kids who were top prospects in this area, all the schools in the area were doing well in attendance and making money off of their concession stands. Those scouts love to eat. Not sure how it is now.

We don't have concession stands, lights or fences (our out field is part of the s****r field in the fall) very little field maintenance. (they mow it when they mow the lawn) also have trouble with the geese landing on it during games...they leave a big mess... very little attendance.. you forget most of the season were wrapped in blankets sitting on "lava bums" drinking our wawa coffee (you pa and jersey people know about wawa)

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I guess the coffee is dipensed somehow using this foot operated device.



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In Omaha there is a gate for all levels of baseball. Reserve is $3-4 and JV and Varsity are $5 for adults. $2 off for kids. Spring season the gate fees go to the school(athletic department I assume) and summer legion season it goes to the baseball program.

In West Virginia, our lone county High School has no gate fee. Local corporate donations each year pay for the cost of umpires. Concession stand money pays for equipment and travel expenses. Tax levies and bonds paid for the facility [grass infield with sprinklers, dirt base paths, state of the art lights]. A new press box is being built with corporate assistance. We probably average about 50 fans total in attendance for each regular season game. Regional championship games and Conference Tournmanent games usuall bring out a couple hundred local baseball fans.

In neighboring Kanawha County [several high schools] according to the fee takers at one school we play each year, the "county school board" requires all high schools in the county to charge a minimum of $5.00 for adults and $3.00 for students. The gate fees are designed to cover the cost of umpires who must annually "negotiate" their fees and expenses in Kanawha county with the school board. The money does not go to the school budget, I am told, but to the school board who pay the umpires directly. It is very weird. Mostly just parents show up at the high school we play. Probably 40 people on average.

The sectional, regional and state championship games have a gate charge. All that money goes to the WVSSAC [West Virginia Scholastic Sports Association and I don't remember what the C stands for]. It is the governing body for all high school sports. They have a lot of money but not much clout [decisions often overruled by local courts; especially regarding the use of ineligible players and forfeiture of games]. I guess it is not just the NE Patriots that cheat.

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