Eton College

Details

  • Type of school: Boys | Senior school
  • Nearest international airport: Heathrow (14km)
  • Age Range: 13-18
  • Number of pupils: 1344
  • Number of boarders: 1344
  • £ Fees per term - Boarding: £15,432

School Information

Eton College is a full boarding school for boys with 1,344 pupils, situated next to the historic town of Windsor, Berkshire. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. The school’s ethos is to take talented pupils with character and give them the skills to progress through life as happy, successful and socially responsible adults. Academic results are important but so too are the skills gained from co-curricular activities including music, drama, art, sports, Combined Cadet Force, outdoor education, our many different societies and our community engagement programme. At Eton, the emphasis is on finding, nurturing and giving value to each pupil’s unique talents. Approximately one fifth of the boys at the school currently receive financial aid. See our website for further details. There are scholarships for
entry aged 13 – the academic King’s Scholarship and various Music Awards. When a boy is awarded a scholarship, it is still possible to apply for a meanstested bursary but the awarding of a scholarship does not guarantee that a bursary application will be successful. There are also a small number of places available in the Sixth Form, namely Orwell Awards (funded places for students for whom studying at Eton would be a transformative experience).

The welfare of boys at Eton College is taken extremely seriously and a robust system is in place, specifically designed to enable staff to spot problems as early as possible. The house structure, tutor groups, our own health centre (the Stephenson Centre for Wellbeing, which houses an adolescent psychiatrist, two clinical psychologists and a counsellor) and the chaplaincy teams (with representatives of multiple faiths) all play a role within this system. Our pastoral care procedures are reviewed regularly by
members of our Leadership Team. The majority of pupils are admitted to the school aged 13. For entry up to and including 2025, registration is required by 30th June in UK School Year 5 (the academic year in which a boy reaches the age of 10); please note these are strict deadlines. The Admissions process for entry up to and including 2025 consists of two stages. The first consists of the ISEB Common Pre-Tests
and a report from the boy’s current school, and the second stage, held at Eton, consists of a specially designed computer test and an interview. A visit to the school either before registration or before assessment is recommended.

“Educating for the future since 1440”

Scholarships and Bursaries

Entry and financial assistance Almost all boys now take our pre-assessment at age 11 (the registration deadline is 10 years and 6 months), which involves a reasoning test, an interview and a school report. Conditional places are offered for entry at 13, subject to qualification through Common Entrance or our King’s Scholarship examination. There are also music scholarships. Entry can be gained through those scholarships in Year 8 without an earlier conditional place; they carry an automatic fee discount of 10%, but this can be supplemented up to 100%, according to need. We also award scholarships at age 10 and age 16 to bright boys from maintained schools, in the former case, funding them through three years at a preparatory school as well as five years at Eton. A wide range of bursary support is also available for boys with Conditional Places, subject to a detailed financial assessment.
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