Number of pupils: 370
Percentage of boarders: 45%
Percentage of international pupils: 20%
Av. class size: senior school - 12 / 6th Form - 8
Closest international airport: London Heathrow Airport, two hours away by car.
Fees per term for 2023/24: £14,785
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 2023 45% of GCSE grades were 9-7 grades and 41% were A grades at A-Levels.
Language-wise French, Spanish, German and Latin are offered.
Technology is taken very seriously here. The school has a dedicated maker space and computer lab with 3D Printers and Oculus VR head-sets, which won the ICT Facility Award at the Education Business Awards in 2017. Pupils start coding in Y7!
45% of pupils are boarders.
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.
Exeat weekends exist and are compulsory.
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.
While ample sports is on offer, Rendcomb College is too small to be seriously competitive. So, not the first choice for serious sports aficionados, alas!