School report
Rugby School
England · Co-educational · Ages 13–18 · Day & boarding · 867 pupils
Notes
Rugby runs a deliberate, endowment-subsidised operating deficit, so its income-statement figures need context. The school depends on fees for only about 78% of its income and holds an endowment of roughly £128m within total funds of around £223m; it draws on investment income — shown in a positive structural result — to spend more on the school than fees alone would cover. That, together with a substantial capital programme (capital spend running close to three times depreciation), is why the operating surplus and margin read negative and the accounts show three consecutive deficits. It is not a sign of distress: resilience rates 'very strong', with over a year of free reserves, and the reserves, funds and spending figures give the truer picture here.
At a glance
Latest income
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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 · 2025-04-29
Roll (12 mo)
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Setting
Historic campus facilities and boarding houses integrated directly into central Rugby town layout along Lawrence Sheriff Street (CV22 5EH). DfE registered bursary address listed at 10 Little Church Street (CV21 3AW)
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School group
School group
Rugby School is part of the Rugby School Group.
The financial figures shown are Rugby School's own filed accounts.
Group membership per the group’s own published list (Rugby School Group). Financial figures are filed per the note above, not consolidated across the whole group.
Inspection & safeguarding
Latest outcome: all met
- Regulator
- ISI
- Band
- Green
- Report date
- 2025-04-29
- Report age
- 1.1 years
Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.
Fees
Fees
What Rugby School publishes for 2025/26 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| Day | Boarding | |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | £37,350 /yr ≈ £12,450/term | £58,920 /yr ≈ £19,640/term |
| Sixth Form | £37,350 /yr ≈ £12,450/term | £58,920 /yr ≈ £19,640/term |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗
Fee history
Full boarding fees have risen +60.1% since 2021/22 — from £36,798 to £58,920 in 2025/26. Latest figure includes VAT. See the full six-year trend below.
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Pupil body
The current roll at a glance.
472 boys · 415 girls · 887 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 34 prep schools in our data.
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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
- 2025-06-30
- Years on record
- 5
- Accounts age
- 11 months
- Pupil numbers
- 867 (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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