Rendcomb College
Rendcomb College
Rendcomb, England
Nestled into the stunning Churn Valley, just 10 minutes from Cheltenham, Rendcomb College is a small, friendly and very inclusive school. With its rural location, outdoors activities like clay-pidgeon shooting and horseback-riding feature large. Rendcomb College has lots to offer pupils that like being on stage, whether it's drama, dance or music. All this takes place in the school's amazing Griffin Theatre. Rendcomb College is also a very forward-thinking school when it comes to technology, with a great IT department and avid coding community.
The Essential
The Academics
A-Levels, GCSEs and a few BTecs on offer.
Rendcomb College is a not a selective school. Given this, the school does commendably well: in 2024 39% of GCSE grades were 9-7 grades and 33% were A grades at A-Levels.
Languages Offered
French, Spanish, German and Latin
The Boarding
Five very cozy, homely boarding houses with very caring house-parents. A lot of single rooms available, but sharing with one or two pupils possible.
The weekends are spent on shopping trips to nearby Cheltenham, cultural trips to London, or relaxing with a book at school.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Strengths
Rendcomb College is especially known for its warm, friendly, inclusive atmopshere. Everyone is welcome and everyone will find their place here. Being a relatively small school helps!
The performing arts offering - especially dance, theatre and music - is superb here. Great dance coaching, with anything from ballet to hip hop and competitive shows at Cheltenham Festival. The amazing £3.3mio Griffin Theatre is the stage for anything from Macbeth to rock concerts.
Computing is another forte. The computing lab is a hive of activity and coding is one of the most popular extracurricular activities. Rendcomb College's team won the 2015 Longitude Explorer Prize for 'Displaced', a mobile app that uses live data from social media to help charities focus on support of vulnerable people.
There is a broad range of great outdoors activities on offer, with shooting, equestrian, golf and sailing all popular.
Weaknesses
Currently relatively few full boarders!
Location
Rendcomb College is located in rural surroundings, ca. 20 minutes away from Cheltenham.
Perfect for anyone seeking a humane school with a diversity of pupils and activities.
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