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Rossall School

Rossall School is a friendly, happy, diverse and inclusive school. Its international outlook (the school has a relatively large international pupil intake and offers the IB) makes this a refreshingly open, contemporary school. The school does well academically, but the focus is firmly on a holistic education. That is also why the provision of co-curricular activities is amazing, especially with a huge range of excellent sports on offer.

Von Bülow Education placed 3 pupils here in 2024.

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The Essentials

Number of pupils: 470
Percentage of boarders: 55%
Percentage of international pupils: 40%
Av. class size: senior school - 15 / 6th Form - 11
Closest international airport: Manchester, 60 mins away by car
Fees per term for 2024/2025: £16,545

http://www.rossall.org.uk

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What we think

Great for pupils who want to enjoy the academic part as much as the extracurricular part of their boarding school experience.

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The Details

The Academics:

A-Levels, GCSEs and the IB on offer.

Rossall School has a broad intake and a considerable share of international pupils whose first language isn't English. Given these facts, the school is doing fine academically. In 2024, 39% of its GCSE results were 9-7 grades, 44% of its A-Levels were A-grades and the school achieved a very decent 34-point-average in its IB results.

Great SEN provision and overall academic support. Rossall manages extremely well to attend to individual learning needs.

Languages on offer include German, Spanish, French and Latin.

Boarding:

55% of pupils board at Rossall School. The boarding houses are homely in most parts and pupils quickly embrace them as 'homes away from home'. There are some single rooms available and a few are en-suite, but the majority of boarders share with one or two other pupils.

Exeat weekends exist, but pupils are free to stay at school.

Strengths:

Rossall School is first and foremost a very happy, inclusive school that manages to accommodate the tastes, needs and quirks of both its British and international pupils, its academic high-flyers and those in need of help, its sports fantatics and those with interests that lie elsewhere. It is this flexibility that marks Rossall School out!

Sports is big here. The school offers hockey, rugby, football and golf academies with dedicated professional coaches and intensified training. Pupils can also play basketball, squash or badminton, to name but a few more.

Rossall School has an enviable selection of extracurricular activities on offer. Want to learn how to cook? Rossall School's new cooking studio has you covered. Is stage set design more your thing? Rossall's dedicated theatre professionals are the people to talk to? More into astronomy? The school has its own space science centre – complete with a planetarium, Victorian observatory and a telescope – and a resident astronomer!