School report
The Royal Ballet School
England · Co-educational · Ages 11–19 · Day & boarding · 228 pupils
Notes
The Royal Ballet School is a specialist vocational dance school, and its operating-surplus figures should be read as such. Only about two-thirds of its income comes from fees — much of the rest meets costs through other sources, including Government support under the Music and Dance Scheme and bursary funding — so a metric that measures spending against fee income alone shows a very large apparent deficit that does not reflect the school's real position. The balance sheet is strong, with a 'very strong' resilience rating and around 22 months of free reserves; those are the figures to weigh, not the fee-based operating result.
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 · 2025-11-25
Roll (12 mo)
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Setting
Upper School site on Floral Street, fully integrated into the dense commercial and theatre grid of Covent Garden, Central London.
Getting there
Inspection & safeguarding
Latest outcome: all met
- Regulator
- ISI
- Band
- Green
- Report date
- 2025-11-25
- Report age
- 0.6 years
Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.
Fees
Fees
What The Royal Ballet School publishes for 2025/26 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| Day | Boarding | |
|---|---|---|
| Senior | £33,956 /yr ≈ £11,319/term | £45,805 /yr ≈ £15,268/term |
| Sixth Form | — | £33,353 /yr ≈ £11,118/term |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗
Fee history
Full boarding fees have risen +48% since 2023/24 — from £32,070 to £47,455 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.
109 boys · 118 girls · 227 on roll
Source: Department for Education, Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics 2025/26 (England).
Age profile
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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
- 2024-08-31
- Years on record
- 5
- Accounts age
- 21 months
- Pupil numbers
- 228 (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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