Wilmslow Road, Alderley Edge, Cheshire SK9 7QE
10 reasons to choose Alderley Edge School for Girls, Infants & Juniors
Top line
Alderley Edge School for Girls, Infants & Juniors has a Schoolsmith Score® of 81. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around and around Alderley Edge and one of the 3 best primary schools within 1.5 miles.
School fundamentals
Alderley Edge School for Girls, Infants & Juniors is an independent prep day school for girls between the ages of 2 and 11 years. It is a Christian school, open to all faiths and none. The school has a non-selective admissions policy. It is the junior division of Alderley Edge School for Girls, an all-through school to age 18, and is an associated member of the Woodard Corporation. Alderley Edge School for Girls, Infants & Juniors fees range from £3,822 (Rec) to £4,803 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT but exclude lunches.
Average class size
Alderley Edge School for Girls, Infants & Juniors has one class per year and an average class size of 14 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
50% of girls at the Juniors go on to Alderley Edge School for Girls. 50% go on to a variety of academically selective and non-selective private & state schools.
The Alderley Edge School for Girls, Infants & Juniors curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and combines science, history and geography into cross-curricular themes throughout. The curriculum also includes PSHE, drama/dance from Year 3, reasoning, French, Spanish. It is an Apple Distinguished School to reflect the high degree of integration of digital learning in the curriculum. The school offers each pupil between 5 and 10 different extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 3.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, languages and music throughout, and for drama and computing from Year 3.
Sport at Alderley Edge School for Girls, Infants & Juniors
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3.
The Arts at Alderley Edge School for Girls, Infants & Juniors
Art and music are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils, as well as drama from Year 3. All pupils learn an instrument in class and half take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Three choirs, an orchestra and five instrument ensembles. The school is one of the top 50 UK prep schools for the breadth of its creative and performing arts extra-curriculum.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.30am to 5.45pm.
Find another school near Alderley Edge School for Girls, Infants & Juniors
The Ryleys School (0.3 miles); Wilmslow Preparatory School (2.4 miles); Pownall Hall School (3.3 miles).
Ashdene Primary School (0.9 miles); St Anne’s Fulshaw Church of England Primary School, Wilmslow (1.2 miles); Nether Alderley Primary School (1.4 miles).
Alderley Edge School for Girls (0 miles); Cheadle Hulme School (5.5 miles); Hulme Hall Grammar School (5.6 miles).
Wilmslow High School (1.4 miles); The Fallibroome Academy (4.8 miles); St James’ Catholic High School (5 miles).