Fact file

At Downside, 75% of our pupils are full boarders, which as a figure, certainly speaks for itself. Every one of our boarders enjoys an outstanding level of pastoral support, a strong sense of community and quality time with their friends

Our school is special because of the warmth and inclusion you can feel as soon as you enter on to our beautiful, enclosed campus in the Leicestershire countryside.

The relationships between staff and pupils that underpin our close-knit school community are truly extraordinary. Each pupil is known, heard and seen, and encouraged to be their very best, no matter what their talents or interests.

The National Mathematics and Science College is very proud of its international boarding community, with students from all around the world currently covering 25 different nationalities, alongside a relatively small number of day students.

Simplicity, truth, respect, integrity, peace, equality and sustainability. These are the Quaker values that remain our touchstones in this modern world. In a beautiful setting of 65 acres of parkland, just 30 minutes from London...

Lime House is a traditional boarding school with Top 20 academic results.

Fyling Hall, less than two hours and a half from Manchester by car, is a very special place to live and study.

We offer scholarships for academic excellence and for outstanding ability in music, art, drama and sport. Scholarships of up to 20% are awarded to pupils who are entering the School at Year 9 and Year 12

Founded in 1879, St Lawrence is a thriving boarding and day school, providing a first class education for boys and girls from the age of 3 to 18 year. We are home to 650 boarding and day pupils from local, UK and international families.

One great advantage of boarding at Dollar is that there are several hundred day pupils that live locally in the town of Dollar, so boarders have a wide circle of friends, both in and out of the boarding house.

Q&A fact file: West Buckland School

At Rishworth we place importance on people. We know the value of academic success as a gateway to University courses and top flight careers so we prepare our students to achieve excellent grades in public examinations.

At Woodbridge School, we want every pupil to thrive, and this begins with the admissions process. We take boarding pupils from Year 9 (age 13) upwards.

We have very hardworking and dedicated teaching staff at St George’s. As a small school, any pupil struggling academically is quickly identified. Communication between parents and staff is strong.

We offer GCSE, A Levels, and BTEC qualifications and are very proud of students academic achievement here at St Joseph's. For boarders we have a designated International Student Coordinate to monitor boarders' academic progress

Academics is at the heart of life at Cheltenham College and all the sport and co-curricular activities compliment the academics, rather than competing with it.

We are a non-affiliated institution and as such none of our children are required to attend religious services and we do not hold any on site. We have families from many different faiths.

It is important to point out that at Dover College we can cater for a mild level of learning needs. Here is an extract from our recent Good Schools Guide Review: “Parents raved about the learning support, which here is called Individual

At the heart of our educational philosophy is a sharing of the joy of learning which, along with our insistence on ambition, helps to make our pupils the very best they can be: creative, active learners well equipped to shape their futures

Finborough is a genuinely unique learning family, where our culture blends ambition and drive for academic success equally with the development of strong positive character founded on great personal leadership.