School report

Ellesmere College

England · Co-educational · 532 pupils

Peer group: 500-999 pupils, England

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At a glance

Latest income

Reserves

Fee dependency

Operating stress

Inspection

Red

ISI · 2024-09-17

Fees

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

2026/27VAT included

	Day	Boarding
Prep	£18,558 /yr ≈ £6,186/term	—
Senior	£23,220 /yr ≈ £7,740/term	£49,104 /yr ≈ £16,368/term
Sixth Form	£23,220 /yr ≈ £7,740/term	£49,104 /yr ≈ £16,368/term

Weekly boarding: £34,668/yrFlexi boarding (per_night): £60/yr

Average actually paid: £20,105.562 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 +41.8% since 2021/22 — from £35,565 to £50,442 in 2026/27. Latest figure includes VAT. See the full six-year trend below.

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Inspection & safeguarding

Red· ISISafeguarding concern

Latest outcome: not all met

An inspection found safeguarding not effective. This is shown prominently and is never hidden.

Regulator: ISI
Band: Red
Report date: 2024-09-17
Report age: 1.8 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 3 prep schools in our data.

Including Moor Park School, Prestfelde School, The Yarlet School.

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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: 2025-08-31
Years on record: 5
Accounts age: 9 months
Pupil numbers: 532 (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.