Best boarding schools in Dulwich
Dulwich Prep and Senior offers flexi-boarding for year 3 to 8 pupils from Monday evenings to Friday mornings during term time at a charge of £75 per night. Meanwhile, Dulwich College has around 140 boarders, two-thirds of them in the sixth form and many from China, Hong Kong and Eastern Europe.
Boarding prep schools near Dulwich
For parents who would like their children to experience some kind of boarding at prep school age, there are numerous accessible options once you get to the southern reaches of London and beyond. Royal Russell School offers boarding to children aged 11 and above. Further out still, Surrey and Kent are relatively convenient for local families. Feltonfleet School, an hour’s drive from Dulwich, offers boarding from age 7, as does The New Beacon School (Monday to Thursday), Saint Ronan's School, Dulwich Prep Cranbrook and The King's School Canterbury, Junior King's among others.
Heading into London is a different proposition with only the three choir schools of St Paul’s Cathedral School, Westminster Abbey Choir School and Westminster Cathedral Choir School really offering a boarding school education.
Boarding senior schools near Dulwich
Families who are keen on senior boarding school tend to choose places within striking distance of home – up to two hours in our experience. Dulwich parents, especially those wanting full boarding, tend to look at Eton College, Harrow School, Wellington College, Sevenoaks School, Marlborough College, Charterhouse, Wycombe Abbey, The King's School Canterbury, Benenden School and Roedean School.
Some families prefer flexi or weekly boarding, a boon for hard-pressed working parents and the chance for youngsters to board for a few nights every week and come home at weekends. Epsom College, St John’s School, Leatherhead, Cranleigh School, St Catherine’s School, Bramley and Woldingham School all offer a flexible approach. As a Woldingham parent told our reviewer: ‘Her bedroom overlooks cows, not some grotty town. Your heart rate drops as soon as you arrive.’ The train from Denmark Hill to Rochester can take less than an hour and makes it easy for weekly boarders at King’s School Rochester to nip home for the weekend.
Children aged 5-18 with autism and/or SEMH needs and those who have experienced trauma can weekly board at Muntham House School, Horsham. A stylish therapy centre supports with clinicians, drama, music and art therapy, several therapy dogs and a dedicated Lego therapy room. Outdoors there are fields, woodland and animal enclosures, where children enjoy equine therapy and can learn to look after the chickens, goats and donkeys.
