Downside School Competitors

As one of the world’s leading schools, we go beyond academic excellence to develop the whole person. We look outwards, to the world beyond school and to our pupils’ futures.

Tonbridge is one of the leading boys’ boarding and day schools in the UK for boys aged 13-18. The School occupies an extensive site of 150 acres in Kent – just a 40-minute train journey from London Charing Cross. Tonbridge School has an outstanding academic reputation. In the latest Sunday Times ‘Parent Power’ league table, Tonbridge was the 6th highest ranking independent school in the country, and the top boarding school. Tonbridge encourages its students to make connections – connections between subjects, between people, between cultures: with the aim of producing fine minds and good hearts. The School’s ethos is summed up in just two words: ‘Only Connect’.

Lancing College is situated on the South Downs, near Brighton and Hove, in several hundred acres of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It has a reputation for academic excellence in all subjects and a strong performance in value-added terms. There are 600 students in the school, which was founded in 1848 by the forward thinking Revd Nathaniel Woodard, whose aim was to provide a good and complete education… of sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the Christian faith. Lancing is an ideal size: big enough to offer a diverse range of opportunities; small enough for everybody to be known and appreciated.