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Parents' Guide to State Boarding Schools

Parents' Guide to State Boarding Schools

Parents’ Guide to State Boarding

November 2020 Contents “The is brilliant, and the children are Foreword 1 really happy there. It has high standards and good discipline. Both pupils and show a Why choose an SBF school? 4 lot of respect for each other. The children are Frequently asked questions 6 really proud of their school.” Benefits of Boarding 17 Summary of Boarding Provision 18 Parent Directory of Schools 20 The SBF 38

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Welcome to the latest edition range with academic results as

of the ‘Parents’ Guide to BSA good as any in the UK.Parents of Dal lam School Ripon State Boarding Forum schools. boarders at state boarding Lancaster Royal schools choose them for a host

Grammar School A few years ago a regional of reasons, including academic

G tourist board coined the phrase quality, the chance for their

Liverpool ‘Britain’s best-kept secret’ as a child to fulfil their potential and

way to lure more visitors. This is the opportunity to take part in

Skegness not a tourist guide of course, an extraordinary wide range of The T homas Adams Grammar School

School but it might be fair to say that activities. Most importantly

Haberdashers’ Adams state boarding is perhaps the however, over 90% say their

Wym ondham The Royal School Wolverhampton C S College ‘best-kept secret’ in British child is happy boarding and

G . would recommend their school Old Swinf ord Hospital and boarding to others.

Members of the State Boarding Hockerill Anglo - European College Colchester Royal Grammar School Forum represent enormous Members of The BSA State

The Royal St George’s diversity. There are 36 state Boarding Forum (SBF) represent Grammar School School Burford School boarding forum (SBF) schools enormous diversity. These are Royal Alexandra and right across the UK ranging in dedicated, hard-working Albert School Beechen Cl iff School boarding numbers from under professionals who don’t just go

The Wellington Gordon’s School Richard Huish College 50 to over 60 0. T h e mix of the extra mile, day after day, to The Duke of York’s G Sexey’s School Peter Symonds Brymore A cadem y Royal Military School schools includes grammar look after boarding students, College Cranbrook School Shaf tsbur y School Steyning schools and schools specialising but meet the stringent Grammar School i n areas like agriculture or standards set by the Exeter College military. It in cludes schools close Government’s National

to towns and to those in Minimum Boarding Standards

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G 1 Over 77,000 pupils across but confident, assured and well- England benefit from a boarding grounded too as they prepare to education, including over 5,000 face the real world. at state . Their parents, with them, decide on This guide makes it easy to learn state boarding carefully and and understand more about the wisely. Because they know they great things offered by British will witness the development of state boarding schools. I hope young students who are not just you find it helpful. accomplished in the classroom,

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Mark Dixon Chair, BSA State Boarding Forum and Headmaster at Royal Alexandra & Albert School

2 3 Why choose “My sons had a fantastic range of courses to choose from at GCSE and A Level” an SBF school? Parent There are many reasons for choosing a state boarding school for your child. Here are just a few:

Excellent educatio n Top quality boarding facilities Affordable boarding education Wide choice of schools All state boarding schools and The boarding facilities are When you can get top quality, Parents will usually find a school follow the National indistinguishable from those at education combined with state- that meets their requirements – and pupils take the independent schools. Following of-the-art boarding facilities it is however specific they are. There same exams as they would in a investment in recent years easy to see why so many are selective schools and state . Whilst the many schools have new parents choose state boarding comprehensive schools; co-ed exams are the same, the boarding houses with modern education for their children. and single-sex schools; primary performance exceeds that of facilities and all are supported Boarding fees are similar to schools, secondary schools and many other schools with state by staff who are totally those at independent schools. ; specialists in boarding schools frequently committed to the well-being of However, because tuition is free many different subjects; featuring at the top of league the children. By selecting a state the total cost is much lower at predominantly boarding or tables. This applies to both boarding school parents are SBF schools, while standards of minority boarding. The schools selective and non-selective choosing the very best boarding care, education and facilities are spread throughout England. schools. Some state boarding care. compare very favourably to schools offer the International private schools. SBF schools offer a diverse Baccalaureate in the sixth form. educational experience and include Prep/Junior, Boys’ and co-ed (there are not any Girls’ schools), selective (Grammar) and non-selective, academies, sixth form colleges and senior 4 schools with sixth form. 5 Frequently asked questions Who can be a boarder at a What is a state boarding How many state boarding How much will a state boarding state boarding school? school? schools are there? place cost me? State boarding schools welcome A , , or There are 33 SBF schools but This will vary from school to children from all backgrounds. academy which provides only 31 have decided to be school – influences They can admit UK pupils. boarding for at least some of its included in this publication. the school’s own costs – and Children from outside the UK pupils. Boarding fees are low Of these two are sixth form from year to year – sixth form need to have the right of because whilst they cover the colleges. places may be slightly more residence in the UK before they cost of providing the boarding expensive than the younger can be accepted as boarders. place; the school, like every Several schools now have years. Schools charge fees to state school in England and academy status, and more will cover the cost of providing Please note that the holding of a , does not charge for surely follow, but this status boarding and vary between BN(O) passport does not make education. makes no difference to pupils about £10,000 and £17,000 the child eligible for a State within the schools, or to parents per year. Prices are not listed Boarding School in the UK. What is it not? considering applying. here because they will change It is not a residential school, every year. Borstal, approved school, special needs school or ‘military school’ in the American sense of being a ‘boot camp’ for children who lack discipline or have behavioural difficulties. In fact, it is pretty much like an independent boarding school in most respects.

6 7 Why are the fees low? When should I apply? which you are interested does it If my child becomes a boarder, Because the schools are not For admission in any have a space in class, and does will they be gone for months charging for teaching at all – in September, apply from the it have an available bed in on end? the UK, education provided by previous September. Be ready boarding. If they do, they may Most state boarding schools will the state is free at the point of to do so as early in September be able to make a swift have an ‘’ (home leave) admission at any time of the access and state schools are not as possible and you MUST do so weekend every three weeks, in year. permitted to charge for tuition. by the national closing date at addition to the usual half terms. the end of October if you are Increasingly, they are providing Do I have to live in the school’s Is there a centralised system applying for a Year 7 (11+) place. weekly boarding, with boarders catchment area? for applications? This will mean enquiring and at home for weekends, if that is No. If you live in England and visiting and making choices in No, not for a boarding place – what families prefer. Please will be applying for a place at a the summer term of the year for boarders, effectively there is enquire of the school you state boarding school at the preceding entry. For entry at age no catchment area. choose what their pattern is. normal time when children 11, successful applicants will be If you wish your child to be at transfer to in notified they have a place on the Do any of them take at the weekend, ask your local authority area, you Common Admission Date, 1 boarders about their programme of March preceding the September will need to apply to the school Yes, at least two to do and weekend activities. of entry. Schools will have of your choice and also need to please see details of individual different numbers of pupils for apply to your home local schools in this publication. Are there any girls’ only authority. Otherwise you simply day places and for boarding schools? places, but all are notified on apply to the individual school. No. the same date.

State boarding places in sixth forms are particularly popular, so early application a year ahead of admission is sensible. For application ‘in year’ for whatever reason, it is always worth asking the school in 8 9 Will one of these schools be as Who can apply for a state good as an independent boarding place? boarding school? • A citizen of the UK In terms of pastoral care, yes. In • A British passport holder who terms of activities, almost may live abroad certainly. In terms of facilities, • A student with ‘Right of probably. Many of them are Residence’ in Britain – e.g. if extremely high-performing they have a parent with right schools academically. Class sizes of residence here for work are likely to be larger than they purposes. would be in the independent sector. But every school, whether independent or state boarding, is different, so check out your choices carefully.

10 11 Notes

SBF schools are not licenced to support students who require a child So how do I choose a school? or student visa to study in the UK. Some things to consider do you want: ‘Right of residence’ does not arise because a child attends a boarding • A large school or a small one school in Britain, it must be held before a place can be offered. • A big community of 650 in one of our colleges, or a small one Holding a British National (Overseas) passport does not make the offering as few as 30 boarding places child eligible for a place at a state boarding school. • A school close to where you live – most boarding parents these days live within an hour’s journey of the school so they can attend If my child does not get a place, what then? matches and plays etc. Every school will have and publish an Appeal Procedure. • Admission into Y7, Y9, or the sixth form • A school with something specific in addition to what a school Can I take a boarding place then change it for a day place? would normally provide – e.g. very strong sports or or No. Schools have separate admission numbers for their day and for instance. boarding populations. Transfer is not an easy process. To take a boarding place and wish to transfer to a day place is to deprive With these questions in mind, look on the SBF website another applicant of a boarding place. www.stateboarding.org.uk and into schools’ own websites to get the feel of the schools. Then visit your ‘top schools’. Involve your Will the school make the most of my child’s academic potential? child in the selection process. He or she will be asked if they really want to be a boarder and the school you choose together will be State Boarding Schools have a very good record of academic results their home for several years – it is important that it feels right for at both GCSE and A Level/IB, and in most state boarding schools, the them. majority of leavers go on to . However, the most important thing is how the school matches your child’s profile and aspirations; SBF cannot advise on individual choices of schools. not all children want to go to university or are suited to doing so. Look carefully at school data on results and destination of leavers for further guidance.

Do any of them offer IB? Yes, a number do and please see details of individual schools in this publication. 12 13 “The sixth form is outstanding: students attain “The teachers are nice, high grades at A-level and leave school very well and the school provides a peaceful, prepared for further study or training.” calm environment.” Pupil

14 15 Benefits of Boarding

Modern boarding is a flexible • They offer a range of option with many state worthwhile evening and boarding schools offering weekend activities weekly as well as termly By visiting some schools with boarding. Boarding has many your child, you will be able to benefits: choose the most suitable one. • Plenty of home comforts and All schools have arrangements a warm welcome for helping new boarders to settle in and the great majority • They help children to develop of boarders get used to their confidence and new surroundings very quickly. independence However, if any do experience • Boarders have the best of problems, help is always at both worlds – a ready-made hand. circle of friends in their Boarding in the sixth form is a boarding house and the popular option for many pupils chance to mix with local as it is an excellent preparation “It’s like one big sleepover for the children with children their extended family, and their learning is fun.” for university life or • They provide continuity and employment away from home. Parent stability, for example for Many state boarding schools children whose parents’ work have sixth forms and there is involves frequent changes of also the option of a further location or where parents education college. work long hours 16 17 Summary of Boarding Provision

Page School Area Type of School No. of Pupils Age Range Boys (B)/Girls(G) No. of Boarding Places 20 Beechen Cliff School Bath Comprehensive Academy 1,200 11-19 B/G * (boys only) 24 20 Technical School 200 11-17 B 150 21 Burford School Oxon Academy 1,166 11-19 B/G 100 21 Colchester Royal Grammar School Grammar 1,002 11-18 B/G * 30 22 Cranbrook School Kent Grammar 760 13-18 B/G 260 22 Dallam School Cumbria Comprehensive 1,000 11-19 B/G 128 23 Exeter College Devon Tertiary College 12,000 16+ B/G 78 23 Gordon’s School Surrey Academy 900 11-18 B/G 266 24 Haberdashers’ Adams Shropshire Selective Grammar 922 11-18 B/G * (boys only) 100 24 Hockerill Anglo-European College Hertfordshire Comprehensive 843 11-19 B/G 300 25 Holyport College Comprehensive 500 11-19 B/G 225 25 Keswick School Cumbria Comprehensive 1,340 11-18 B/G 53 26 Lancaster Royal Grammar School Lancaster Grammar 1,150 11-18 B/G ** 177 26 College Liverpool Academy 1,544 4-19 B/G 21 27 Old Swinford Hospital Stourbridge Comprehensive 1,300 11-18 B/G 358 27 Peter Symonds College Hampshire 4,000 16-19 B/G 78 28 Reading School Reading Academy 911 11-18 B 80 28 Richard Huish College Somerset Sixth Form College 2,000 16-19 B/G 52 29 North Yorkshire Selective Grammar 930 11-18 B/G 105 29 Royal Alexandra and Albert School Surrey Voluntary Aided 1,150 7-18 B/G 500 30 Sexey’s School Somerset Comprehensive 595 11-18 B/G 198 30 School Comprehensive 1,081 11-18 B/G 108 31 Grammar School Grammar 600 11-18 B/G 55 31 St George’s School, Harpenden Hertfordshire Academy 1,340 11-18 B/G 120 32 Steyning Grammar School West Sussex Community School & Sixth Form College 2,021 11-18 B/G 120 32 The Duke of York’s Royal Kent Academy 500+ 11-18 B/G 500+ Military School 33 The Royal Grammar School Buckinghamshire Grammar 1,350 11-18 B 70 33 The Royal School, Wolverhampton West Midlands Free School 784 4-19 B/G 110 34 The Thomas Adams School Shropshire Academy 1,200 11-18 B/G 64 34 The Wellington Academy Wiltshire Academy 1,000 11-18 B/G 100 35 Academy 1,278 11-18 B/G 650

18 19 *Sixth Form only **Girls in Sixth Form Directory of Schools

Beechen Cliff School Brymore Academy Burford School Colchester Royal www.beechencliff.org.uk www.brymoreacademy.co.uk www.burford.oxon.sch.uk Grammar School Tel: 01225 480466 Tel: 01278 652369 Tel: 01993 823393 www.crgs.co.uk Alexandra Park, Bath, BA2 4RE Cannington, Somerset, TA5 2NB Cheltenham , Burford. Oxon, Tel: 01206 509100 OX18 4PL Lexden Road, Colchester, Essex, School type: Comprehensive Academy School type: Technical School CO3 3ND School type: Academy Age Range: 11-19 Age Range: 11-17 School type: Grammar Gender: Boys 11-16 with boys Gender: Boys Age Range: 11-19 and Girls in sixth form Number of Pupils: 200 Gender: Boys and Girls Age Range: 11-18 Number of pupils: 1,200 Boarding Places: 150 Number of Pupils: 1,420 Gender: Boys 11-18 Boarding places: 24 (boys only) Sixth form: 20 Boarding places: 100 (Girls in sixth form) Sixth form: 320 Sixth form: 230 Number of pupils: 1002 Notes: Boarding places: 30 Notes: • 60-acre farm, walled garden, Notes: Sixth form: 400 • Outstanding School (Ofsted 2014) blacksmithing forges and • Outstanding academic • High academic standards with a workshops achievement at GCSE and A Level Notes: broad range of sports and activities • Top 3% of schools in the country • Wide range of extra-curricular • Consistently ranked in the national Sunday Times Parent Power top 10 • Set in the beautiful Georgian of for progress made to target grade activities and opportunities state secondary schools Bath for 5 A*-Cs • Strong academic and pastoral • Over 35 offers every year • Brand new purpose-built boarding • Small class sizes, sporting support within day and boarding. house with en-suite facilities. excellence, outstanding teaching, • Family atmosphere and excellent 88% 5-A* to C. pastoral care.

20 21 stateboarding.org.uk stateboarding.org.uk Cranbrook School Dallam School Exeter College Gordon’s School www.cranbrookschool.co.uk www.dallam.eu https://exe-coll.ac.uk/ www.gordons.school Tel: 01580 711800 Tel: 01539 565165 Tel: 01392 400500 Tel: 01276 858084 Cranbrook, Kent, TB17 3JD Heversham, Milnethorpe, Cumbria, Hele Road, Exeter, Devon, EX4 4JS West End, Woking, Surrey, GU24 9PT LA7 7DD School type: Grammar School type: Tertiary College School type: Academy School type: Comprehensive Age Range: 13-18 Age Range: 16+ Age Range: 11-18 Gender: Boys and Girls Age Range: 11-19 Gender: Mixed Gender Gender: Boys and Girls Number of pupils: 760 Gender: Boys and Girls Number of pupils (total): Number of Pupils: 900 Boarding Places: 260 Number of pupils: 1,000 Approx. 12,000 Boarding places: 266 Sixth form: 300 plus Boarding places: 128 Boarding places: 78 Sixth form: 300 Sixth form: 200 Notes: Notes: Notes: • Rated as an “outstanding” school Notes: • Outstanding School (Ofsted 2014) • Sixth Form (75% of the grades at by Ofsted in July 2011 • IB World School with outstanding • High academic standards with a A*-B) • Enviable academic results. (two achievement at GCSE, A level and broad range of sports and activities • In the HM Chief Inspector of thirds of students achieved A*-A at Oxbridge • Hosting a new South West Institute Schools “outstanding schools list” GSCE in 2013. Also 99.5% pass rate • Rated Outstanding by Ofsted for of Technology Digital and Data • Over 90% of Sixth Formers reach as A Level with 48% of grades sixth form and boarding Centre, set to complete their chosen destination after A-A*). Third best A level results • Extensive programme of sports, construction early 2021 A Levels overall in Kent clubs, performing arts and outdoor • ‘Early Adopter’ of new T Level • Top 20 boarding school in the UK • Excellent pastoral care, superb pursuits qualifications, the only provider in for academic progress. facilities, 75-acre campus and • Set in an enviable, safe location on Devon to offer them for 2020 strong sporting tradition. the southern fringes of English delivery. Lake District.

22 23 stateboarding.org.uk stateboarding.org.uk Haberdashers’ Adams Hockerill Anglo-European Holyport College Keswick School www.adamsgs.uk College www.holyportcollege.org.uk www.keswick.cumbria.sch.uk Tel: 01952 953810 www.hockerill.com Tel: 01628 770442 Tel: 01768 772605 High Street, Newport, Shropshire, Tel: 01279 658451 Ascot Road, Holyport, Berkshire, Vicarage Hill, Keswick, Cumbria, TF10 7BD Dunmow Road, Bishop’s Stortford, SL6 3LF CA12 5QB Hertfordshire, CM23 5HX School type: Selective Grammar School type: type: Comprehensive School type: Comprehensive Age Range: 11-18 Age Range: 11-19 Age Range: 11-18 Gender: Boys 11-16, Boys and Girls in Age Range: 11-19 Gender: Boys and Girls Gender: Boys and Girls sixth form Gender: Boys and Girls Number of Pupils: 500 Number of pupils: 1,340 Number of Pupils: 922 Number of pupils: 843 Boarding places: 225 Boarding places: 53 Boarding places: 100 (boys only) Boarding places: 300 Sixth form: 180 Sixth form: 260 Sixth form: 350 Sixth form: 250 Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: • Opened in September 2014 on a • Outstanding A level and GCSE • One of the top-performing schools • Sunday Times Schools Guide 2020 brand new purpose built campus, results in the UK with a strong alumni – highest-placed school in country the country’s first boarding and day • Boarding students are happy and community based on sixth form results (Table Free School engage in a wide range of extra- curricular activities on an evening • Recommended by the Good of Comprehensive and Partially • An all ability co-educational school and weekends. They enjoy living in Schools Guide and judged Selective schools) where every student excels a boarding house run as an Outstanding by Ofsted • Outstanding university destinations academically extended family in the heart of the • A huge variety of enrichment • International focus, offering IB • is the sole educational Lake District National Park activities supported by a strong Diploma, Middle Years Programme sponsor, taking a leading role on (UNESCO World Heritage Site) and GCSEs. the Governing body. • School and boarding rated as • Two boarding houses, providing a outstanding. ‘Staff support 100-acre countryside setting for the remarkable experiences and younger boys and a small market opportunities for boarders. town location for the senior boys Boarders make excellent social and by the main school site. academic progress to provide here a strong foundation for future success (October 2018)’ • Transport service to and from local train stations and airports. 24 25 stateboarding.org.uk stateboarding.org.uk OSH OLD SWINFORD HOSPITAL

Lancaster Royal Old Swinford Hospital Peter Symonds College Grammar School www.liverpoolcollege.org.uk www.oshsch.com www.psc.ac.uk www.lrgs.org.uk Tel: 0151 724 4000 Tel: 01384 817300 Tel: 01962 857500 Tel: 01524 580605 Queens Drive, Liverpool L18 8BG Heath Lane, Stourbridge, Owens Road, Winchester, Hants, East Road, Lancaster, LA1 3EF DY8 1QX SO22 6RX School type: Academy School type: Grammar School type: Comprehensive School type: Sixth form college Age Range: 4-19, Boarding at 11-19 Age Range: 11-18 (boys and girls) Age Range: 11-18 Age range: 16-19 Gender: Boys, Girls in Sixth form Gender: Boys and girls Gender: Boys 11-18, Girls 16-18 Gender: Boys and Girls Number of pupils: 1,150 Number of pupils: 978 from Year 7 – 13 Number of pupils: 1,300 Number of Pupils: 4,000 (1,544 pupils from Reception to Y13) Boarding places: 177 Boarding places: 358 Boarding places: 78 Boarding places: 21 (Girls boarding in sixth form) Sixth form: 400 Sixth form: 4,000 Sixth form: 350 Sixth form: 250 Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: • Excellent academic subjects. Broad • Wide range of academic courses • Leafy 28-acre campus, new • School and boarding rated curriculum embraces both and cultural, music and sporting boarding house on campus “outstanding” in all categories by traditional and academic subjects activities Ofsted • Ofsted Outstanding rated in all • Rated “Outstanding” for boarding, • Excellent academic results • Excellent results place LRGS categories Ofsted 2019. “Pupils make • Strong learning support consistently in the top 2% of state • Complete structured and staffed significant progress in their department. schools for GCSE and A-level programme of sport, activities and confidence and independence as • We offer state-of-the-art boarding academic for day and boarding well as school work” pupils daily facilities, excellent pastoral care and • Modern boarding houses an extensive range of activities • Outstanding results and university • Outstanding extra-curricular matriculations including Oxbridge, • Outstanding for Boarding (Ofsted opportunities that enrich school Medicine 2019). life and develop potential. • Excellent pastoral provision and focus on the individual boarder • Five miles from Liverpool Airport, close to all transport links • Full or weekly boarding, no exeat weekends.

26 27 stateboarding.org.uk stateboarding.org.uk Reading School Richard Huish College Ripon Grammar School Royal Alexandra and www.readingschool.reading.sch.uk www.huish.ac.uk www.ripongrammar.co.uk Albert School Tel: 0118 901 5600 Tel: 01823 320800 Tel: 01765 602647 www.raa-school.co.uk Erleigh Road, Reading, Berkshire South Road, Taunton, Somerset Clotherholme Road, Ripon, Tel: 01737 649000 RG1 5LW TA1 3DZ North Yorkshire, HG4 2DG Gatton Park, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 0TD School type: Academy School type: Sixth Form College School type: Selective Grammar School type: Voluntary Aided Age Range: 11-18 Age range: 16-19 Age Range: 11-18 Gender: Boys Gender: Boys and Girls Gender: Boys and Girls Age range: 7-18 Number of Pupils: 1,074 Number of pupils: 930 Gender: Boys and Girls Notes: Boarding places: 80 Boarding places: 105 (co-ed) Number of pupils: 1,150 • Offers a wide range of A Level Sixth form: 350 Sixth form: 271 Boarding places: 500 courses, Vocational courses and Sixth form: 250 Notes: Apprenticeships to students aged Notes: • Ofsted - “Outstanding” in all areas- 16 to 19 • Education and boarding rated outstanding Notes: (Ofsted) • Offers an Ofsted Outstanding February 2020 report. Excellent • A leading provider of • Named the ‘Top state school in the North’ boarding experience results at both GCSE and A level Apprenticeships in Taunton and by The Sunday Times for seven years • The most recent Ofsted report Somerset. • One of the few boarding running states that ‘Boarding is integral to schools to offer junior, as well • In the top 2% of schools nationally for the life of the school … a culture of as senior boarding pupil progress continuous improvement’ • Excellent results with many • Exceptional pastoral care with a wide range students achieving places at • Weekly boarding in two on-site of cultural, sporting and music activities top boarding houses. • The majority of students win places at leading universities, including Oxbridge, • Superb facilities include with boarders being among our highest equestrian centre, swimming achievers pool, all weather pitches. All • Fantastic sports facilities including a new within 260 acres of beautiful 3G pitch and sports pavilion set in 27 Surrey parkland. beautiful acres • “A high-achieving school without being highly pressured, with learning and life skill opportunities valued as much as examination success.”(Good Schools Guide). 28 29 stateboarding.org.uk stateboarding.org.uk Sexey’s School Shaftesbury School Skegness Grammar School St George’s School, Harpenden www.sexeys.somerset.sch.uk www.shaftesburyschool.com www.shs.lincs.sch.uk www.stgeorges.herts.sch.uk Tel: 01749 813393 Tel: 01747 854498 Tel: 01754 610000 Tel: 01582 765477 Cole Road, Bruton, Somerset, Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury, Dorset, Vernon Road, Skegness, Lincolnshire, Sun Lane, Harpenden, Hertfordshire BA10 0DF SP7 8ER PE25 2QS AL5 4TD

School type: Academy School type: Comprehensive School type: Grammar School type: Academy

Age ra nge: 11-18 Age range: 11-18 Age Range: 11-18 Age range: 11-18 Gender: Boys and Girls Gender: Boys and Girls Gender: Boys and Girls Gender: Boys and Girls Number of pupils: 595 Number of pupils: 1,081 Number of pupils: 600 Number of pupils: 1,340 Boarding places: 198 Boarding places: 108 Boarding places: 55 Boarding places: 120 Sixth form: 101 Sixth form: 258 Sixth form: 150 Sixth form: 330

Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: • 11-18 coeducational boarding at • Happy and motivated students • “Outstanding” outcomes for • Outstanding academic standards one of the best performing non- who regularly achieve among the boarders and pastoral support selective schools in the UK for less best results in the South West at • Two hours from • Specialist status for Maths and than £5,000 per term GCSE and A Level, especially for Computing, Sport and • Bright, modern and homely • Named as the Sunday Times progress and attainment boarding facilities • Excellent extra curricular Schools Guide Comprehensive • Extensive extra-curricular • Excellent record of progression to programme and facilities. School of the Year 2019 programme including fencing, top universities, including Oxbridge • A thriving boarding community karting, chess, Duke of Edinburgh where “boarders thoroughly enjoy • Extensive range of extra-curricular and ACF the boarding experience” and activities and opportunities • Excellent pastoral and careers where “the camaraderie and support, with over half of students • Situated in idyllic North Dorset friendships provide them with peer progressing to Russell Group • A real “home away from home” for support and ensure that activities university places those from the UK and abroad. are enjoyable” (OFSTED 2019) • Based in beautiful Bruton, • A unique blend of academic drive and co-curricular and sporting Somerset – voted among Sunday provision at all levels from the elite Times’ Top Places to Live. to the recreational • Less than an hour by road from Heathrow, Stansted and Luton. 30 31 stateboarding.org.uk stateboarding.org.uk Steyning Grammar School The Duke of York’s Royal The Royal Grammar School The Royal School, www.sgs.uk.net Military School www.rgshw.com Wolverhampton Tel: 01903 817601 www.doyrms.com Tel: 01494 524955 www.theroyalschool.co.uk Church Street, Steyning, West Sussex, Tel: 01304 245023 Amersham Road, High Wycombe, Tel: 01 902 341230 BN44 3LB Guston, Dover, Kent, CT15 5EQ Buckinghamshire, HP13 6QT Penn Road, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV3 0EG School type: School type: Academy School type: Grammar Community school and Sixth Form School type: Free School Age Range: 11-18 Age Range: 11-18 College, VA Gender: Boys and Girls Gender: Boys Age Range: 4-19, boarding at 11-19 Age Range: 11-18 Number of pupils: 500+ Number of Pupils: 1,350 Gender: Boys and girls Gender: Boys and Girls Boarding places: 500+ Boarding places: 70 Number of Pupils: 784 from Yr 7-13 Number of pupils: 2,021 Sixth form: 192 Sixth form: 400 (1,369 students from Reception to Yr13) Boarding places: 120 Boarding places: 110 Notes: Notes: Sixth form: 507 Sixth form: 124 • Set in over 150 acres of Kent • Contemporary purpose-built boarding Notes: Countryside and ranked in the top 2% house with extensive modern Notes: • An Ofsted “Outstanding” State of schools in England for GCSE facilities, All Sixth formers and GCSE • July 2019, Ofsted inspection confirmed boarding School in England (Ofsted progress 8, the school provides an all- students have single en suite rooms that “personal development and round education with a strong is outstanding” 2013) • Last three Ofsted reports indicated academic focus • Excellent results from a non-selective • A beautiful West Sussex rural local, that the boarding was “Outstanding” • The award-winning school, with school providing an environment where (2013, 2016, 2019) outstanding leaders and managers • Excellent pastoral care students strive to be the best they can • High academic standards, superb (Ofsted 2018), offers a unique blend of be results on national level and Boarders • Large green campus over three sites academic school life, sports, and the have for the past decade received with great sporting facilities • Results are consistently than arts combined with an impressive higher academic results than their day • Elite Swimming Squad and link with the national average, last year 100% of military heritage peers. Last year’s boarders achieved Wolverhampton Wanderers Academy boarding GCSE students achieved 5 • Open to all 11-18 year olds, the school 90% A*-B at A level • Broad and academically demanding A*-C grades, with A level students boasts an excellent extra-curricular • Exceptional sporting pedigree and curriculum in the Sixth Form achieving 100% overall pass rate programme where every student is wide ranging co-curricular programme • STEM specialism encouraged to achieve and develop • Accepting students into year 9 (GCSE) with outstanding gym facilities. leadership, initiative, creativity and • Extended day for all pupils with a & Year 12 (A-levels and BTECH). independence large range of extra-curricular activities • Recent £24.9 million refurbishment • Full or weekly boarding; no exeat project generated unrivalled facilities. 32 weekends. 33 stateboarding.org.uk stateboarding.org.uk The Thomas Adams S chool A The Thomas Adams School The Wellington Academy Wymondham College www.thomasadams.net www.thewellingtonacademy.org.uk www.wymindhamcollege.org Tel: 01939 233311 Tel: 01264 405060 Tel: 01953 609000 Lowe Hill, Wem, Shropshire, SY4 5UB Tidworth, Wiltshire, SP11 9RR Wymondham, Norfolk, NR18 9SZ

School type: Academy School type: Academy School type: Academy

Age Range: 11-18 Age Range: 11-18 Age Range: 11-18 Gender: Boys and Girls Gender: Boys and Girls Gender: Boys and Girls Number of pupils: 1,200 Number of pupils: 1,000 Number of Pupils: 1,278 Boarding places: 64 Boarding places: 100 Boarding places: 650 Sixth form: 200 Sixth form: 200 Sixth form: 440

Notes: Notes: Notes: • 25 A level and BTEC subjects • Boarding provision is rated • OfSTED rated “Outstanding” in both offered, High academic standards Outstanding (OFSTED 2018) boarding and academic inspections • Excellent, personalised pastoral • New state-of-the-art facilities, part • One of The Tatler Top 20 State care and support of a £32 million campus Schools • Expert university and careers • Successful and expanding Sixth • Extensive Wymondham Life Extra advice form Curricular Programme • Large selection of enrichment opportunities • Specialism – ICT, Business and • Strong CCF Tradition Enterprise. • Extensive open and green location • Exchange Programmes with many • We celebrate diversity and are schools across the world pleased to welcome students from • Quality, modern boarding facilities. a variety of cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds • “Young people enjoy their boarding experience and make good progress in many areas of their life” Ofsted 2019.

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