School report

The Elms School

England · Co-educational · 158 pupils

Peer group: <200 pupils, England

Nearest airportsBirmingham 1h 4mBristol 1h 35mEast Midlands 1h 38mCardiff 1h 44mManchester 2h 10mtypical drive · via OpenRouteService / OpenStreetMap

At a glance

Latest income

Reserves

Fee dependency

Operating stress

Inspection

Red

ISI · 2024-10-01

Fees

What The Elms School publishes for 2026/27 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.

2026/27VAT: mixed

	Day	Boarding
Prep	£27,375 /yr ≈ £9,125/term	£38,535 /yr ≈ £12,845/term

Flexi boarding (per_night): £52/yr

Average actually paid: £20,277.228 per pupil. Derived from the school's accounts — blended across day and boarding pupils and net of bursaries, scholarships and sibling discounts, so it usually sits below the advertised fees above.

Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗

Full boarding fees have risen +47.5% since 2021/22 — from £26,130 to £38,535 in 2026/27. Latest figure includes VAT. See the full six-year trend below.

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Finances

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Inspection & safeguarding

Red· ISISafeguarding concern

Latest outcome: not all met

An inspection found safeguarding not effective. This is shown prominently and is never hidden.

Regulator: ISI
Band: Red
Report date: 2024-10-01
Report age: 1.7 years

Read the sourceInspection report ISI page

Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.

Where leavers go

Senior schools this prep sends its pupils to.

Leavers have gone on to 30 named senior schools.

Including Ampleforth College, Bedales School, Blundell's School and more.

Common Entrance success: 100%

Year 8/13+

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Curriculum & activities

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Catchment

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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: 158 (inspection:ISI)
Components: Income components reconcile
Entity scope: This school

Check the sourceCharity Commission register Filed accounts

Data completeness100/100

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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Prototype — figures derive from public records (Charity Commission, OSCR, ISI/Ofsted/Education Scotland/Estyn, ONS Census). Some fields (pupil–teacher ratios) are not yet in the dataset and are omitted rather than estimated.