Number of pupils: 750
Percentage boarders: 40%
Percentage international pupils: 20%
Average class size: senior school: 14 // 6th Form: 12
Closest international airport: London Gatwick, 30mins by car
Fees per term for 2023/2024: £14,080
The school offers GCSEs, A-Levels and a few BTecs.
Bede's Senior School achieves consistently decent academic results. In 2023, its GCSE results yielded 45% 9-7 grades and its A-Levels % A grades. The school does this without being overly selective.
Bede's Senior School offers very good learning support, especially for kids with dyslexia and dyspraxia.
40% of pupils board. About 20% of boarders are international students. Boarding houses of 80 pupils are subdivided into smaller family groups of 10, spanning all year groups. The boarding community is integrated and tight-knit. The boarding houses are modern and in excellent condition.
Bede's Senior School does not have exeat weekends.
Bede's Senior School has a phenomenal and deserved reputation for sport. Hockey, football and tennis deserve special mentions. A very large range of other sports from shooting to sailing is offered.
The school's own dance school, the Legat Dance School, attracts some of the UK's most promising dance talent.
The creative offer is also very strong here with superb art and Design and Technology departments offering anything from photography and fine arts to building furniture and electric cars.
The school has an incredibly broad range of extracurricular activities on offer. These range from sustainable gardening - the school is proud to be an ecologically sustainable school! - to looking after animals in the school's own animal zoo!
The close proximity to London makes Bede's Senior School a popular choice with rich Londoners. It has been known that pupils on occasion flaunt their wealth at school.