School report
Oratory Preparatory School
England · Co-educational · Ages 2–13 · Day & boarding · Size unknown
This school is run by a company rather than a charity, so Charity Commission financials don’t apply here.
At a glance
Latest income
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ScholarInspection
A colour summarising the school's most recent inspection outcome. Different inspectorates (ISI, Ofsted, and the Scottish and Welsh bodies) use different systems, so results from different inspectorates aren't directly comparable.Green
ISI · 2025-02-25
Roll (12 mo)
PrefectSetting
Setting
Self-contained 65-acre estate set in Goring Heath near Reading, surrounded by Berkshire countryside and woodland.
Getting there
Inspection & safeguarding
Latest outcome: all met
- Regulator
- ISI
- Band
- Green
- Report date
- 2025-02-25
- Report age
- 1.3 years
Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.
Fees
Fees
What Oratory Preparatory School publishes for 2025/26 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| Day | Boarding | |
|---|---|---|
| Prep | £23,073 /yr ≈ £7,691/term | £37,941 /yr ≈ £12,647/term |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗
Fee history
Full boarding fees have risen +51.7% since 2021/22 — from £26,070 to £39,540 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.
143 boys · 120 girls · 263 on roll
Source: Department for Education, Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics 2025/26 (England).
Age profile
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Where leavers go
Senior schools this prep sends its pupils to.
Leavers have gone on to 30 named senior schools.
Including Abingdon School, Bradfield College, Bryanston School and more.
Year 8/13+ · latest 2023
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Recruitment & staffing
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See plans →Data & sources
Where these figures come from, and how complete they are.
- Financial source
- Companies House
- Detail level
- Headline figures
- Latest accounts
- —
- Years on record
- 0
- Accounts age
- —
- Pupil numbers
- —
- Components
- —
- Entity scope
- not_a_charity
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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