One fee, published in full, billed once
Boarding and day places for the senior years. The annual figure on this page is what a family pays — there is no separate charge for books, trips, examinations or the laundry.
How the school is run
Four things a prospectus usually leaves to the visit. They are here because they are what actually differs between schools.
Classes of eighteen, capped
Not "small classes" — eighteen, and a nineteenth pupil waits for the next year rather than joining. The cap is the reason the fee is what it is, and both are published rather than one.
Boarding and day, same timetable
Day pupils are not a second cohort with a shorter week. Prep, games and evening supervision run for everybody, and boarders simply sleep here.
Every teacher teaches
Including the head, four periods a week. A senior team that has stopped teaching is a senior team that stops noticing what the timetable is actually like.
One report, written by a person
Termly, in prose, by the teacher who taught the subject. No grade banding, no comment bank and no percentile against a cohort of eighteen, which would mean nothing.
The fee, whole
Four figures. There is no fifth line on the bill, which is the only claim on this page worth checking against another school’s prospectus.
How admission works
Four steps, and the third is the one families find unusual.
A visit, on a working day
Never an open day. You see the school as it runs, with lessons happening and the dining hall in use, rather than a version arranged for visitors.
An assessment, not an examination
Two hours of written work and a conversation, marked to tell us how to teach your child rather than to rank them. Nobody is given a score.
We say what we think
Including when we think a different school would suit better, which happens with roughly one applicant in five and is the reason those families recommend us anyway.
One offer, one fee
The figure in the offer is the figure above. Bursary applications are assessed separately and never affect whether a place is offered.
Asked at every visit
Four answers. The first one is the question every school is asked and the one we answer differently.
What are your board results?
We publish them to families who ask, with the cohort size beside them, and we do not put them on this page. A percentage from a year group of fifty-four moves several points when two pupils have a bad week, and a school that leads with the number is inviting a comparison the number cannot carry.
What is not included in the fee?
Nothing that the school arranges. Books, trips, examination entries, games kit, laundry and the evening meal are all in it. What is genuinely not included is travel to Dehradun and anything a family arranges privately, such as an instrument.
Do you take pupils mid-year?
Rarely, and only where a class is under the cap. A nineteenth desk is not something we add for a good applicant, because the cap is the thing families are actually buying.
How many boarders to a room?
Four in the lower years, two in the upper. Shown on the visit rather than photographed for this page — a picture of a dormitory tells you about the lighting and nothing about the supervision.
Come on a working Tuesday
Two hours, lessons running, and an honest conversation about whether this is the right school for your child.