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The following is a list of notable boarding schools in the United Kingdom. Many of the private schools in the United Kingdom are boarding schools, although nearly all also have day pupils. There are also about 30 state boarding schools in England .
There are about 30 state boarding schools in England, providing state-funded education but charging for boarding. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In addition, the Five Islands Academy in St Mary's, Isles of Scilly , provides free boarding during the week to secondary students from other islands.
In 2021, the average annual cost for private schooling was £15,191 for day schools and £36,000 for boarding schools. [7] The Independent Schools Yearbook has been published annually since 1986. [8] This was a name change of a publication that started in 1889 as The Public Schools Yearbook. [9]
This is an incomplete list of private (independent) schools in the United Kingdom. Also refer to the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference for a list of their member schools ( boarding and day schools ) in the United Kingdom , Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland .
It is one of the oldest boarding schools in the UK, and now adopts a co-educational model. In 2023 there were around 1000 pupils, approximately 45% of whom were female. [2] In 2024, the school was included in The Schools Index as one of the 150 best private schools in the world and among the top 30 senior schools in the UK. [3]
Eton College (/ ˈ iː t ən / ⓘ EE-tən) [3] is a public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys aged 13–18, in Eton, Berkshire, England.It has educated prime ministers, world leaders, Nobel laureates, Academy Award and BAFTA award-winning actors, and generations of the aristocracy, and has been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". [4]
Roedean (/ ˈ r oʊ d iː n /) is a private boarding school governed by royal charter on the outskirts of Brighton, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1885 by three sisters to educate wealthy daughters and heiresses of aristocracy and industrial elites of the 18th century. It is the most prestigious single-sex boarding school in the UK alongside ...
Millfield is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18) located in Street, Somerset, England.It was founded in 1935. Millfield is a registered charity and is the largest co-educational boarding school in the UK with approximately 1,330 students, of whom over 990 are full boarders from 75 different countries.