Browse Warwickshire schools by age

 Set around a Grade II listed manor house in the pretty Saxon town of Cricklade, Cricklade Manor Prep offers a happy, high-achieving education for children aged 2-11. Part of the Wishford Schools group since 2018, the school builds one-to-one sessions into every pupil's week, ensuring each child is stretched and supported according to their own ability. Eight acres of grounds include a swimming pool and dedicated forest school space, with fencing a particular sporting strength. Proof that outstanding private education needn't cost the earth, Cricklade Manor sends many leavers on to the region's top grammar schools. 

 Centred around a butter-coloured Georgian manor house in the heart of Corsham, Heywood Prep offers a caring, family-feel education for children aged 2-11 across two acres of beautiful gardens. Individualised Learning sessions sit at the heart of the curriculum, ensuring every child is enthused and challenged according to their own needs, while opportunities range from entrepreneurship challenges to leadership roles earned through handwritten application letters. Rated excellent in all areas at its most recent inspection, Heywood is known for a strong family ethos where: "Pupils mix with ease across all age groups." A cheerful, compassionate school where children truly blossom. 

 Founded in 1875, Pinewood School is one of the oldest prep schools in the country, now marking 150 years on its 84-acre site on the Wiltshire-Oxfordshire border. Offering day and boarding places for children aged 3-13, Pinewood builds its entire ethos around kindness, curiosity, perseverance and respect, developing self-awareness and emotional intelligence alongside strong academic preparation. With a notably favourable seven-to-one pupil-to-teacher ratio, children here are known individually - there isn't even a head boy or girl, since every child is considered equally important. Pinewood pupils regularly progress with scholarships to the country's top senior schools. 

 Founded in 1091 by Saint Osmund, Salisbury Cathedral School is one of the oldest schools in the country, educating the choristers of Salisbury Cathedral alongside day and boarding pupils aged 3-13 within the historic Cathedral Close. The school became the first English cathedral choir to admit girls in 1991, and choristers continue to enjoy equal duties regardless of gender. Around 70% of pupils win awards and scholarships to leading senior schools such as Bryanston, Canford, Dauntsey's and Sherborne. With teamwork, creativity and community woven through the curriculum, Salisbury Cathedral School offers a truly unique blend of mainstream prep education and living choral tradition. 

 Set in the beautiful Pewsey Vale near Marlborough, St Francis School has provided a friendly, family education for children from birth to thirteen since its founding, with seventeen acres bordered by the Kennet and Avon Canal. St Francis prides itself first and foremost on community, believing that self-esteem, self-expression and compassion matter just as much as academic rigour. Purpose-built facilities include a dedicated Design and Food Technology building and a modern science laboratory, while the Little Saints Nursery offers year-round care from birth. St Francis continues to nurture confident, considerate young people ready to make their mark. 

 St Margaret's Prep shares a stunning 27-acre campus in Calne with senior school St Mary's Calne, offering girls and boys aged 2-11 a nurturing community built around historic charm and modern facilities alike. Guided by four key pillars - Igniting Interests, Nurturing Individuality, Fostering Exploration and Realising Potential - St Margaret's gives every child access to a 25-metre swimming pool, all-weather astro pitches and a climbing wall built especially for little ones. Around half of St Margaret's girls progress naturally to St Mary's Calne, while the school's can-do attitude and strong 11+ support help every pupil find their next step with confidence. 

 From September 2026, Chafyn Grove and Godolphin unite to form Chafyn Godolphin, a genuinely all-through independent school for pupils aged 2-19 across two Salisbury sites. Chafyn Grove's Bourne Avenue campus, tracing its own roots to 1876, provides education from Reception to Year 6 under the ethos of Enjoyable Challenge, before pupils progress seamlessly to the Milford Hill site for secondary and sixth form study. As part of United Learning, the combined school benefits from a national network of over 100 schools while retaining its distinct Salisbury character. Over 300 years of combined heritage now moves forward as one ambitious, unified community. 

 Founded in 1542 in accordance with the will of London mercer William Dauntesey, Dauntsey's School has grown into a leading co-educational boarding and day school for pupils aged 11-18, set across more than 100 acres on the edge of Salisbury Plain. Big-hearted and unpretentious, Dauntsey's balances strong academic results with an exceptional co-curricular programme, including ownership of Jolie Brise, a historic sailing cutter that has won the Tall Ships Race four times. Friendship sits at the very heart of the Dauntsey's atmosphere - between pupils, between staff, and between the two. A traditional yet forward-thinking school in the truest sense. 

 Salisbury's only co-educational independent day school, Leehurst Swan traces its history back over a century, formed through the 1996 merger of Leehurst Convent School and The Swan School. Educating pupils aged 4-16, the school's 'Find Your Voice' ethos encourages children to try, get things wrong, and try again - confident risk-taking that builds self-belief and academic progress alike. Leehurst Swan is particularly well known for its strong 11+ results into local grammar schools, while its Senior curriculum offers a fresh, individually tailored GCSE pathway. Small in size, but grand in its aspirations for every pupil. 

 Founded in 1843 for the sons of Church of England clergy, Marlborough College is now a fully co-educational boarding school for pupils aged 13-18, set across 286 acres of historic downland centred on a 4,000-year-old Neolithic mound reputed to be the burial place of Merlin. Marlborough broke new ground in 1968 by admitting girls into the Sixth Form - one of the first major British independent schools to do so - before becoming fully co-educational in 1989. Among the 150 best private schools in the world, Marlborough continues to celebrate individuality and difference within a genuinely vibrant, ambitious community of scholars. 

 Founded in 1873 by Canon John Duncan, St Mary's Calne is one of the UK's leading girls' boarding and day schools, educating around 360 pupils aged 11-18 across a 27-acre Wiltshire campus. Girls learn and board by year group under St Mary's uniquely horizontal system, creating a strong sense of togetherness at every stage. With A-level results ranking among the top 25 in the country and a guiding ethos of "you can at Calne," the school blends serious academic ambition with genuine warmth. Almost 80% of girls play a musical instrument, and Sixth Formers perform annually at the Edinburgh Fringe - proof that at Calne, achievement and joy go hand in hand. 

 Founded in 1895 and now set across 80 acres of parkland near Bath, Stonar School offers a co-educational day and boarding education for pupils aged 2-18, having become fully co-educational in 2016. Stonar is widely regarded as the UK's leading equestrian school, with stabling for up to 65 horses and around 40% of pupils riding regularly, whether on their own horse or a school loan pony. Consistently ranked in the top 10% of schools nationally for GCSE value-added, Stonar pairs genuine academic rigour with a warm, kind community. As part of the Globeducate group, pupils also enjoy a genuinely global outlook and international perspective. 

 Warminster School's roots stretch back to 1707, when Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth, founded a grammar school for local boys near his family seat at Longleat. Today's school took shape in 1973 through the amalgamation of Lord Weymouth's School and St Monica's, and now offers a co-educational day and boarding education for pupils aged two to eighteen across a 60-acre campus. With over 300 years of tradition behind it, Warminster still encourages pupils to step outside their comfort zone and give things a genuine go - nurturing self-esteem alongside academic and co-curricular ambition. A community-oriented school built on confidence, discovery and adventure in equal measure.