School report
Ellesmere College
England · Co-educational · Ages 7–18 · Day & boarding · 532 pupils
At a glance
Latest income
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ISI · 2024-09-17
Roll (12 mo)
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Setting
Self-contained 144-acre estate situated just south of Ellesmere town, surrounded by rural Shropshire countryside.
Getting there
Inspection & safeguarding
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
Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.
Fees
Fees
What Ellesmere College publishes for 2026/27 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| 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 |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗
Fee history
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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Pupil body
The current roll at a glance.
265 boys · 167 girls · 432 on roll
Source: Department for Education, Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics 2025/26 (England).
Age profile
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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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Recruitment & staffing
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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
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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