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Established in 1615, The Perse School, Cambridge is a top performing co-educational day school in Cambridge for pupils aged 3-18. 🏆 Sunday Times East Anglia Independent Secondary School of the Year 2026. 🏆 Sunday Times East Anglia Independent School of the Year for Academic Excellence 2026.

The Stephen Perse Cambridge is a family of independent schools educating boys and girls from Nursery to Sixth Form across Cambridge and Saffron Walden. By inspiring young minds with excellent teaching delivered by well-qualified and highly motivated staff, education at Stephen Perse schools follows a holistic, wide-ranging and creative curriculum where the small school format on each site means that every student is known and celebrated.

The Leys is the only independent, co-educational boarding and day school for 11-18 year olds in Cambridge. The Leys is a close-knit, engaged, friendly community in which pastoral care is seen as our top priority. We see ourselves as a big, small school: big enough to offer a huge range of opportunities, but small enough that we are able to get to know individuals, with all their individual strengths and unique characters, and able to encourage them to strive to be the best they can be. The confidence which our pupils gain from this encouraging family atmosphere is perhaps the greatest gift we can offer them – without it, they cannot hope to fulfil their potential in work and play.