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Whitgift School is a British independent day and boarding school in South Croydon, London currently educating approximately 1,500 boys aged 10 to 18. It is operated by the Whitgift Foundation, a charitable trust, and has amongst the highest number of scholarships and bursaries awarded to pupils of any independent school in the country.[1] The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. Whitgift School's moto is Vincit qui patitur ("He who perseveres, conquers").

Bancroft’s is an award-winning co-educational HMC day school serving 1,200 pupils aged 7 to 18. Founded by the Drapers’ Company in 1737, we combine serious academic ambition with a full extra-curricular life and a strong, caring pastoral ethos. The Preparatory School shares specialist facilities with the Senior School, including the sports hall, swimming pool, arts and sciences. The Senior site is built around a Victorian quad and supplemented by a modern Performing Arts Centre, Music School, Science Labs and a dedicated Sixth Form Centre. We aim to provide a transformative experience for every pupil, one that is supportive, challenging and inspiring. Recent honours & recognition - Finalist in the London Independent School of the Year category at the Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2026, with the winner to be announced in October - Finalist in the Inclusive SEN Provision category at the Education Choices Awards 2026 - Winner of Essex Tennis School of the Year 2025/26 at the LTA Awards - Winner of Pastoral Care Champion 2025, School House Magazine - Winner of the Alice Rose Award at the Talk Education Awards 2025 - Finalist at the Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2025 - Ranked among the top fully co-educational day schools in the UK in the Sunday Times Parent Power 2025 - Selected as one of the Best Value Private Schools in the UK 2025, rated “Very Good” by The Telegraph, the highest rating awarded - ISI Inspection 2025: fully compliant across all regulatory standards

Oundle School is situated in the quintessentially English market town of Oundle, about 90 miles north of London. The School’s buildings, dating from the 17th, are dispersed throughout the town, which is, to a large extent, its campus. The School’s history dates back to 1556, when Sir William Laxton, Master of the Worshipful Company of Grocers and Lord Mayor of London, endowed and re-founded the original Oundle Grammar School, of which he was a former pupil. In 1876, the Grocer’s Company divided the School into two parts; Laxton Grammar School, primarily for the inhabitants of the town, and Oundle School, primarily for pupils from further afield. In 2000, the Grocers’ Company reunited the two schools under the common name of Oundle School and retained the name of Laxton for the day House. At the beginning of the 20th century, Oundle was put firmly on the map of leading English public schools by its most famous headmaster, F W Sanderson, who established Oundle’s reputation as one of the great science and engineering schools, a reputation still renowned today. In 2016, the School completed its ambitious SciTec project, uniting Science, Mathematics, Design, Technology and Engineering both physically and philosophically, enabling pupils to move seamlessly from theory to practice and from pure science to the achievement of a workable technology. The development includes the ground-breaking Patrick Engineering Centre, a new Mathematics department and an extension to its sixteen state-of-the-art Science laboratories. In 2020, the Oundle School Sports Centre was opened, which is the flagship of the Sports MasterPlan. It is central to the expansion of the sports programme, and offers pupils a wide range of both sport and leisure-based facilities and activities. There are currently 1,130 pupils on roll at Oundle School, with 820 boarders and 310 day pupils. Also within the Corporation of Oundle School is Laxton Junior School, a day school for children aged 4 to 11.