Number of pupils: 1050
Percentage of boarders: 80%
Percentage of international pupils: 10%
Av. class-sizes: senior school: 15 // 6th form: 10
Closest international airport: London Heathrow Airport, 30 minutes by car.
Fees per term in 2023/2024: £16,310
The school offers GCSEs, A-Levels and the IB.
Wellington College is known to be very selective and very academic. The exam results bear this out: in 2022 75% of A-Level grades were A-grades, the IB diploma average was a stunning 41 out of 45 points and 74% of GCSE grades were 9-8.
Languages on offer are Latin, Greek, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Mandarin.
80% of pupils board, making Wellington a proper, near-full boarding school.
The school has seventeen boarding houses, all of which are at a high standard and with a distinct character.
Exeat weekends are compulsory.
Wellington College is a very academic school with excellent results and high-quality teaching in most departments.
Wellington College has an unparalleled offer of exciting, high-quality extracurricular activities, with clubs, sports, creative activites and enrichment programmes galore!
The school is a veritable sports powerhouse and pretty much the school to beat in most disciplines - especially the rugby!
The creative offer is spectacular with amazing drama, music and art on offer. A new performing arts centre whose auditorium seats 900+ is complemented by TV editing suite, recording studios, concert rooms etc. Art in many media, DT and general creativity busting out all over. Trips, exhibition, visitors - the list goes on!
Being in the vicinity of London, the school attracts some of the flashier elements of London society.
Also, the school is known to have a relatively high staff turn-over.