St Edward’s, Oxford
St Edward’s (known as Teddies) is a boarding and day school in Oxford for boys and girls aged 13-18.
St Edward’s at-a-glance
- Approx 700 pupils
- 100 acres at the heart of Oxford
- IB, A Level, Extended Project and IGCSE
- An inclusive pupil body with a wide range of nationalities represented
- 1:7 pupil-teacher ratio
School facilities
- 90 acres of pitches
- A Virgin Active Health and Racquets Club is situated on school grounds with large gym, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, tennis courts, floodlit astro pitches and squash courts
- Large boathouse 5 minutes from School on the River Thames
- Golf course
- Nationally important arts centre, The North Wall, with both public and school programmes, regularly attracting the best contemporary writers and performers
Boarding options
- St Edward’s is a full boarding school. Roughly 85% of pupils board with day pupils allocated rooms in Boarding Houses so that they live and work alongside their boarding peers.
Top leavers’ destinations
- Some 80% of leavers go to the most prestigious universities in the UK and overseas, including a number each year to Oxford and Cambridge. Overseas, pupils have recently gone on to study at Georgetown, Washington; Berkeley, California; McGill, Montreal; Trinity College, Dublin; and universities in Hong Kong, Japan and Europe.
- Our most popular UK destinations are: Exeter, Bristol, Edinburgh, Durham, London (UCL, KCL, Imperial), Manchester, Nottingham, Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham and Warwick
Scholarships
- St Edward’s offers the following scholarships and awards at 13+ and 16+:
Academic, Music, Sport, All-Rounder, Art, Drama and Dance
Special features
- A 100 acre school site within easy reach of one of the most culturally and academically stimulating cities in the world
- One of the top co-educational schools in the country for the IB Diploma
- A Level and IB results in recent years have been among the best in the School’s history
- Strong links with Oxford University academics
- A full and inclusive boarding community with outstanding opportunities for extra-curricular activities
- A pupil-managed International Council designed to help overseas children settle well into the school community
