School report

Clifton College

England · Co-educational · 1,247 pupils

Peer group: 1000+ pupils, England

Nearest airportsBristol 24 minCardiff 1h 23mExeter 1h 26mBirmingham 1h 44mSouthampton 1h 55mtypical drive · via OpenRouteService / OpenStreetMap

At a glance

Latest income

Reserves

Fee dependency

Operating stress

Inspection

Green

ISI · 2023-10-10

Fees

What Clifton College publishes for 2026/27 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.

2026/27VAT included

	Day	Boarding
Prep	£21,405 /yr ≈ £7,135/term	£39,915 /yr ≈ £13,305/term
Senior	£38,850 /yr ≈ £12,950/term	£59,505 /yr ≈ £19,835/term
Sixth Form	£39,510 /yr ≈ £13,170/term	£62,175 /yr ≈ £20,725/term

Flexi boarding (per_term): £18,555/yr

Average actually paid: £26,705.277 per pupil. Derived from the school's accounts — blended across day and boarding pupils and net of bursaries, scholarships and sibling discounts, so it usually sits below the advertised fees above.

Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗

Full boarding fees have risen +54.1% since 2021/22 — from £38,625 to £59,505 in 2026/27. Latest figure includes VAT. See the full six-year trend below.

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Inspection & safeguarding

Green· ISINo concerns raised

Latest outcome: all met

Regulator: ISI
Band: Green
Report date: 2023-10-10
Report age: 2.7 years

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Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.

Academic results

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Feeder schools

Prep schools that name this school as a destination.

Named as a destination by 10 prep schools in our data.

Including All Hallows School, Beaudesert Park School, Dean Close St John's and more.

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Curriculum & activities

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Language & character

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Catchment

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Data & sources

Where these figures come from, and how complete they are.

Financial source: Charity Commission (England & Wales)
Detail level: Parsed from full accounts
Latest accounts: 2024-08-31
Years on record: 5
Accounts age: 21 months
Pupil numbers: 1,247 (inspection:ISI)
Components: Income components reconcile
Entity scope: This school

Check the sourceCharity Commission register Filed accounts

Data completeness100/100

Pupil–teacher ratio: not published — independent schools aren’t in the DfE workforce census, and filed accounts don’t separate teaching staff.

Capital trend: only one year of capital spend is on record, so a multi-year under-investment signal can’t be computed yet.

Computed 2026-06-20 · pipeline ct-derived-1.0.0. Indicators, not verdicts — each is traceable to its source.

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Prototype — figures derive from public records (Charity Commission, OSCR, ISI/Ofsted/Education Scotland/Estyn, ONS Census). Some fields (pupil–teacher ratios) are not yet in the dataset and are omitted rather than estimated.