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 Rye St Antony

Rye St Antony is an independent boarding and day school for girls aged 3 to 18 (and day boys 3-11).  Established in 1930 as a lay Catholic foundation, the school is situated in a beautiful 12-acre location overlooking the city of Oxford.
Rye St Antony at-a-glance
  • Founded in 1930 by two Oxford teachers
  • Approximately 400 pupils
  • 12 acres of beautiful gardens and woodland less than a mile away from Oxford city centre
  • Pupils selected by interview, reports and references from previous schools, and, for senior school pupils, formal examinations
  • Rye welcomes pupils of all faiths or none
  • Ratio of pupils to full-time equivalent teaching staff is 1:5
  • Specialist teachers of English as an Additional Language
School facilities

Facilities include:

  • Sports Centre including Fitness Suite
  • Performing Arts Centre
  • Heated swimming pool
  • Hockey pitch, athletics track, netball and tennis courts
  • Sixth Form Centre
  • Purpose built home economics kitchen and ICT suite
Boarding options

Rye St Antony offers the following boarding options:

  • Full boarding
  • Weekly boarding
  • Flexi-boarding
Top five leavers’ destinations 2015
  • University of Birmingham, Imperial College London, Reading University, Cardiff University, University of York
Scholarships

Rye St Antony awards four 11+ scholarships, three 13+ scholarships and four 16+ scholarships each year, and there are also means-tested bursaries available.

Special features
  • ‘Home from home’ boarding environment
  • Small class sizes
  • Wide range of Sixth Form courses offered
  • All pupils involved in the musical life of the school
  • Catholic school founded by lay Catholics
  • Forest School
  • Pupils encouraged to take numerous charitable and community initiatives
  • Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme

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Rye St Antony, Pullen's Lane
Oxford, OX3 0BY

Tel: 01865 762802
enquiries@ryestantony.co.uk

www.ryestantony.co.uk

 

In May 2011 the school was judged ‘excellent ‘by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) and ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted.

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