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Best boarding schools near Chiswick

With no boarding schools in Chiswick itself, families look to the many options within an hour of W4. We highlight the prep and senior boarding schools most popular with Chiswick parents, including those with convenient transport links from west London.

A plethora of boarding options awaits Chiswick families prepared to hit the motorway. Some will even pick up and return your teenager from the local bus stop.

Boarding prep schools near Chiswick

Lambrook School, Papplewick School and Caldicott whizz Chiswick children off to the countryside in their minibuses, allowing them to start as day pupils and build up to flexi or weekly boarding. Those committed to boarding from the off consider Wellington College Prep, Dragon School, Cheam School, Pinewood School, Elstree School or St Hugh’s School, Oxfordshire, all offering an idyllic prep school setting within an hour or so of W4.

Boarding senior schools near Chiswick

This list is not exhaustive, and Chiswick’s youth will travel far and wide for glorious facilities and country air. Those schools currently attracting attention are big, buzzy, co-eds like Wellington College, Bradfield College, Charterhouse, St Edward’s Oxford and Marlborough College, all packed to the rafters with west Londoners. For clever girls, Chiswickites like Wycombe Abbey and Cheltenham Ladies’ College.

Benenden School (girls) is worth driving around the M25 for, as is Tonbridge School (boys). Old favourites, Eton College, Harrow School and Winchester College continue to draw boys (and in the case of Winchester, girls too) from across the area.

Some senior boarding schools provide transport from Chiswick in brightly branded minibuses: look at Leighton Park School, ACS Egham (for the US curriculum or IB) and Shiplake College for co-ed weekly boarding. For the girls, Downe House School, Heathfield School and St George’s School Ascotdo similarly.

Children with specific learning needs enjoy the weekly bus to Bruern Abbey Prep (Oxfordshire) and Bruern Abbey Senior schools (near Aylesbury), to take advantage of the open spaces and wide range of extracurricular activities. Bespoke buses leave central London and stop at Shepherd’s Bush and along the A40 at the beginning of each week.