Tell me your success stories with private schools for academic and non-sporty child

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Tell me about your experience of schools which offered academic rigour and level-headed ethos for bright, eccentric, non sporty boys. Independent for 4-11/13. Ideally day and coed but will go for boys only if offers right culture. Looking for non-pretentious with focus on instilling love of learning and critical thinking over traditional/rugby boys schooling. Noting these schools lean towards being town schools (as opposed to masses of land for sports).

Willing to move for right place (we work remote). Ds6 currently in state and is bored and frustrated by lack of challenge particularly in maths. Welcome useful tips for schools providing the culture mentioned above. Thanks

The City of London School for boys would be academically rigorous and less sporty than most. It’s locked in a crowded city with sports fields some distance.

All schools are required to offer some physical education, but this school wouldn’t be leading on sportiness like a Millfield.

Long schlep from Hertfordshire though.

Bancrofts might be easier to reach. Quite academic and not particularly sporty.