School report
School C
England · Co-educational · 529 pupils
At a glance
Latest income
£11.3m
Year 2023/24
Reserves
How many months the school could keep running on its savings if its income stopped. More months means a larger safety net.6.2
months of spending
Fee dependency
How much the school relies on fees versus other income. A school funded almost entirely by fees has less of a cushion if pupil numbers fall.95%
of income from fees
Operating stress
How financially stretched this school looks next to similar schools — based on its reserves, whether it runs a surplus or deficit, its income trend and how much it relies on fees. About 29% of comparable schools look more stretched than it, so a higher number is healthier. It's a relative measure, not a verdict.29%
of peers are more stretched
Inspection
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 · 2024-04-23
Fees
Fees
What School C publishes for 2026/27 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| Day | Boarding | |
|---|---|---|
| Prep | £21,636 /yr ≈ £7,212/term | — |
| Senior | £27,099 /yr ≈ £9,033/term | £51,561 /yr ≈ £17,187/term |
| Sixth Form | £27,099 /yr ≈ £9,033/term | £51,561 /yr ≈ £17,187/term |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3.
Full boarding fees have risen +55.9% since 2021/22 — from £33,078 to £51,561 in 2026/27. Latest figure includes VAT. See the full six-year trend below.
Fee history
How this school’s published fee has moved over the last six academic years.
darker points are the years private-school VAT applies (from January 2025); the dashed line marks its onset.
A blank is unknown, not zero. Compare only like stage, mode and year. Annualised or reconstructed figures are marked “derived” on hover, and VAT is only stated for 2025/26 onward.
Source: each school’s own published fee schedules and public web archives.
Finances
How it compares
Against schools of 500-999 pupils. The shaded band is the typical peer range (middle 50%); the dot is this school.
Typical peers 6.7 to 17.6 · median 12.9
Typical peers 90% to 97% · median 94%
Typical peers -6.6% to 1.5% · median -2.1%
Typical peers 59% to 66% · median 62%
Typical peers 0.5× to 1.7× · median 1.0×
Typical peers £22k to £36k · median £28k
Typical peers 100 to 100 · median 100
Source: Charity Commission / OSCR filed accounts; peer groups computed across the dataset.
Financial position
A simple green, amber or red rating summarising how financially secure a school looks, based on its published accounts. Green is reassuring; red suggests taking a closer look. It's an indicator, not a verdict.Free reserves cover 6.2 mo · total funds £6.0m
Latest year £-229k (-2.0% of income) · income +9.7%/yr
Running a deficit, with moderate reserves to absorb it.
Two indicators, not a verdict.
Income & expenditure
Five-year trend from filed accounts.
Latest income
£11.3m
Latest spend
£11.5m
Latest result
£-229k
Years on record
5
Source: Charity Commission / OSCR annual returns.
Where the surplus comes from
Each line as a share of fee income — the clearest read on whether the school pays its way.
10% is the healthy guide
of total income
Source: parsed filed accounts (Charity Commission / OSCR).
Spending breakdown
From the school’s filed accounts.
68% of total spending goes on staff · ~246 employees.
That’s 66% of fee income.
ReinvestmentHow much a school spends on improving its buildings and facilities relative to its fee income — a sign of whether it's investing in its future.
Capital spend
£110k
Depreciation
£241k
0.5× capex : depreciation — spending less on buildings than they depreciate. Peers typically 1.0×.
Reinvestment ratio: 1.0% of fee income spent on capital.
Source: parsed Charity Commission / OSCR accounts.
Per pupil & bursaries
From filed accounts and pupil numbers.
per pupil
all roles · headcount
of fee income
Source: Charity Commission / OSCR; pupil counts from inspection records.
Peer-group benchmarking
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Inspection & safeguarding
Latest outcome: all met
- Regulator
- ISI
- Band
- Green
- Report date
- 2024-04-23
- Report age
- 2.2 years
Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.
Academic results
Exam results
Published results for School C over time. Where a national figure exists it is shown alongside, for context only — the 2021 outlier reflects that year's teacher-assessed grades across the country, not this school.
GCSE 9-7
This schoolNational · Ofqual GCSE outcomes, all subjects
GCSE 9-4
A-level A*-A
A-level A*-B
This schoolNational · JCQ A-level outcomes, all subjects
A-level pass rate
IB average score
A-level average points
GCSE pass rate
IB pass rate
In the school's own words
Context the school publishes that isn't a like-for-like figure — shown as quoted, never plotted or compared.
- 2025 · “IB Diploma offered”
- 2022 · “highest pass rate and percentage of grades 9-7 achieved since 2010”
- 2022 · “A*-B grades up by over 14% on 2019”
Source: each school's own published results; national series from Ofqual / JCQ. Hover a point for its source; click to open it.
Leavers' destinations
Where leavers go next, as each school reports it. Schools define and publish these differently, so they're shown as sourced statements — not compared between schools.
2025
- 2025 university destinations include Oxford, King's College London, Exeter
2023
- 2023 destinations: 97% of university applicants gained firm or insurance choices
Source: each school's own published destinations.
Curriculum & activities
Subjects
What School C offers — the subjects on the timetable, not exam performance or how many pupils take each one.
Years 7–9
GCSE
BTEC / vocational
A-level
International Baccalaureate
Source: each school's own curriculum pages. Click a subject to open the page it was listed on.
Activities
The co-curricular activities School C publishes, grouped by kind. A list of what's offered — not a score: a longer list often just means a school lists more, not that it does more.
Sport
Clubs
Ensembles
Productions
Competitions
Awards
Programmes
Activities
Service
Trips
Events
Lessons
Roles
Other
Source: each school's own website. Click an activity to open the page it was listed on.
Language & character
What the school emphasises
The co-curricular activities School C mentions most on its website — sized by how often each comes up. A signal of what the school chooses to foreground, not a full list of what's on offer (see Activities for that).
Source: the school's own website (language extraction, reviewed but not a verified provision list).
In their own words
The most distinctive language on School C's website — sized by how strongly it stands out (how often it's used and how rare it is elsewhere) and coloured by theme. Hover a term for its mention count and source; click to see where it was found.
A reviewed language map — filtered and ranked, not a raw word cloud. Source: the school's own website.
What the inspection emphasises
How the inspection report divides its attention across themes, compared with the average school — a fairer read than raw word frequency, since every inspectorate leans on the same core vocabulary.
Compared with the average school, this inspection dwells more on Academic, and notably less on Boarding and Pastoral & Wellbeing.
e.g. Leadership, Community, Confidence
e.g. Mental Health, Wellbeing, Emotional Wellbeing
e.g. Early Years, Academic, Science
e.g. Boarding, Boarding House
e.g. Safety, Fire Safety, Safety Training
e.g. Enrichment, Extra-curricular, Sport
e.g. Careers, Personal Statement
e.g. Diversity, EAL
Share of themed mentions in the school's published inspection report. The tick marks the average across all schools. Colour is a label, not a judgement.
The school's words vs the inspectors'
How the language on School C's website lines up with its inspection report — which of its themes the inspectors echo, and which they don't.
Backed up by the inspection
School C highlights these on its own site, and the inspectors emphasise them too.
The school highlights — the inspection doesn't
Promoted on the school's site but not picked up in the inspection report. Inspections don't cover everything, so this isn't a criticism — just an unmatched claim.
Raised by the inspectors independently
Emphasised in the inspection, but not foregrounded on the school's own site.
Website terms are matched to inspection-report terms. Each links to the source where it was found.
Catchment
Who lives nearby.
Catchment demographics
These are fictional sample schools, so no catchment data is shown — a real map would give away the school’s actual location. On a live profile, this section maps the demographics of the drive-time catchment (population, age mix, education, occupation and ethnicity), drawn from the 2021 Census.
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
- 2024-08-31
- Years on record
- 5
- Accounts age
- 21 months
- Pupil numbers
- 529 (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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