School report
St Paul's School
England · Boys only · Ages 7–18 · Day & boarding · 1,516 pupils
Notes
St Paul's recent operating deficits are driven largely by a major capital programme — capital spend has been running at almost six times depreciation, over £15,000 per pupil — rather than by any weakness in its day-to-day finances. The balance sheet is very strong: total funds of around £127m and roughly 27 months of free reserves, with a 'very strong' resilience rating. The operating surplus and bottom line read negative while the building programme runs its course; the reserves and funds figures give the truer picture of the school's position.
At a glance
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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 · 2025-01-14
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Setting
45-acre riverside campus in Barnes, enclosed within the South West London suburban grid along Lonsdale Road.
Getting there
Inspection & safeguarding
Latest outcome: all met
- Regulator
- ISI
- Band
- Green
- Report date
- 2025-01-14
- Report age
- 1.4 years
Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.
Fees
Fees
What St Paul's School publishes for 2026/27 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| Day | Boarding | |
|---|---|---|
| Prep | £30,663 /yr ≈ £10,221/term | — |
| Senior | £37,998 /yr ≈ £12,666/term | £57,543 /yr ≈ £19,181/term |
| Sixth Form | £38,715 /yr ≈ £12,905/term | £58,260 /yr ≈ £19,420/term |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗
Fee history
Full boarding fees have risen +44% since 2021/22 — from £39,966 to £57,543 in 2026/27. Latest figure includes VAT. See the full six-year trend below.
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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 St Johns Beaumont, Westminster Abbey Choir School, Westminster Cathedral Choir School.
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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
- 1,516 (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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