School report
Hanford School
England · Girls only · 73 pupils
These financial figures relate to the charity that operates the school, which runs more than one school — so they cover the wider group, not this school alone.
Notes
In May 2024, Sherborne School (Boys), Sherborne School for Girls, Sherborne Preparatory School and Hanford School consolidated to form the Sherborne Schools Group (SSG), with the charity assuming the assets of the merging schools. This created a large one-off gain in the latest accounts (income well above expenditure), so income-based figures — operating surplus, income trend and fee dependency — look stronger than the group's underlying position. Reserves and spending figures are unaffected.
At a glance
Latest income
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ISI · 2025-12-02
Fees
Fees
What Hanford School publishes for 2026/27 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| Day | Boarding | |
|---|---|---|
| Prep | £24,015 /yr ≈ £8,005/term | £31,650 /yr ≈ £10,550/term |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗
Full boarding fees have risen +38.9% since 2021/22 — from £23,550 to £32,700 in 2026/27. Latest figure includes VAT. See the full six-year trend below.
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Latest outcome: all met
- Regulator
- ISI
- Band
- Green
- Report date
- 2025-12-02
- Report age
- 0.6 years
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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
- 2025-06-30
- Years on record
- 5
- Accounts age
- 11 months
- Pupil numbers
- 73 (inspection:ISI)
- Components
- Income components reconcile
- Entity scope
- Group of 4 schools
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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