School report
Westminster Cathedral Choir School
England · Boys only · Ages 4–13 · Day & boarding · 276 pupils
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 · 2023-06-14
Roll (12 mo)
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Setting
Located on Ambrosden Avenue, integrated directly into the dense urban street environment of Westminster, London.
Getting there
Inspection & safeguarding
Latest outcome: all met
Inspected under ISI’s previous graded framework (before September 2023); shown on the current met/not-met standards basis for comparability.
- Regulator
- ISI
- Band
- Green
- Report date
- 2023-06-14
- Report age
- 3.0 years
Inspectorates use different scales, so bands are shown only within their own regime, never cross-mapped.
Fees
Fees
What Westminster Cathedral Choir School publishes for 2025/26 — the advertised price, before any bursary or scholarship.
| Day | Boarding | |
|---|---|---|
| Prep | £30,330 /yr ≈ £10,110/term | £12,840 /yr ≈ £4,280/term |
Termly figures are the annual fee ÷ 3. Source: the school's fee page ↗ — prep boarding<day [verified — Boarding is exclusively available to choristers at a heavily subsidised weekly boarding rate. No standard boarding exists for non-chorister pupils. Th…]
Fee history
Full boarding fees have risen +20.1% since 2021/22 — from £10,692 to £12,840 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.
Source: Department for Education, Schools, Pupils and their Characteristics 2025/26 (England).
Age profile
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Where leavers go
Senior schools this prep sends its pupils to.
Leavers have gone on to 19 named senior schools.
Including Eton College, Dulwich College, Harrow School and more.
Year 8/13+ · latest 2026
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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
- 2025-08-31
- Years on record
- 5
- Accounts age
- 9 months
- Pupil numbers
- 276 (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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