Independent Senior Day Schools - South East - Non-Boarding

[Peyner]

Can anyone recommend (or suggest, even if they don't recommend!), any senior schools (11+ or 13+) in Surrey / Hampshire / Berkshire / Oxfordshire / Gloucestershire that are:

(1) Co-ed
(2) Day schools (as opposed to boarding - at least in the vast majority of students)
(3) Non-religious (at least broadly)
(4) Academically selective

Thank you!!!

KES is Bath is worth a look. In Oxfordshire the academically selective ones will all be single sex.

Claremont Fan Court School in Esher

KGS Surrey
St George's weybridge

KES Southampton.

Churchers College
Epsom college
St John's leatherhead
Reigate college
Reading Blue Coat school
And in Bucks Berkhampstead school

Have you looked here:
https://www.isc.co.uk/schools/

Reigate Grammar (the College is sixth form only) hits all your criteria.

Caterham ( small number of boarders)

Epsom and St John’s have more boarders again.

Another vote for Reading Blue Coat.

Thanks so much, everyone.

I have looked on the ISC website but it doesn't filter particularly well between day schools and boarding schools that happen to also accept a small number of day pupils. It also doesn't help with the academic side of things - so whilst its good for plotting a number of schools on a map, it doesn't really help to narrow them down!

Reigate is sadly too far for us - otherwise looks great. Same with Berkhamsted.
Epsom seems to be a boarding school that takes day pupils.

Reading Blue Coat was one we dismissed a few years ago as it was all boys - definitely worth another look so thanks for bringing this to my attention.

#PermanentTemporary and #TennisSquare do you have children at Reading Blue Coat? Are you able to give any thought on how well the move to co-ed is going?

I'll take a better look at the other schools kindly mentioned too.

Thanks again!

Sorry no but I'm local to Epsom college and it's regarded as a day school with boarders but it has a long day and Saturday school and a new head starting in Sept. It's also very expensive and very very popular!

Portsmouth Grammar School?

St Johns Leatherhead? Agree re. Epsom being regarded as day school although it has Saturday school and long hours iiirc

The Abbey in Reading
St Helen's and St Katherine's in Abingdon

St. Helen's and St. Katherine's is all girls not co-Ed.

City of London Freemen’s would fit the bill and I’d agree that Epsom College is a day school with boarders. Caterham a decent shout but if Reigate too far then I guess Caterham is too.

St George’s in Weybridge is catholic so may not suit.

You are looking in a very broad area. Where are you based or will you relocate?

We're based in the South Downs, but willing to relocate as we have family towards Cheltenham that we'd love to be closer to.

I'll take another look at Epsom - I was wrongly of the impression that it was predominantly boarding. Ideally, however, we'd be a little further from the London school commuters...

CLFS is near Ashtead so perhaps not as far as you think. Lancing College or Brighton College too far?

LVS in Ascot

Bedales

I (vaguely) know a couple of girls who have joined this year’s Y7 intake at Blue Coat. The girls are in a minority in the year group (with the only other girls currently being in the 6th form), so it will take some time to feel more balanced. As a result, sports fixtures are not great, as there is a very small pool for the girls, and it doesn’t lead to well-matched teams.
I don’t know about academics or pastoral matters though.