School House, 10 Maze Green Road, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 2PQ
10 reasons to choose Bishop's Stortford College Prep & Pre-Prep School
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Bishop’s Stortford College Prep & Pre-Prep School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 89. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around Bishop’s Stortford and one of the 3 best primary schools for 1 mile.
School fundamentals
Bishop’s Stortford College Prep & Pre-Prep School is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 3 and 13 years. It is a United Reformed Church school, open to all faiths and none. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is the prep school to Bishop’s Stortford College, an all-through school to age 18, and is an associated member of the Woodard Corporation. Bishop’s Stortford College Prep & Pre-Prep School fees range from £4,812 (Rec) to £7,822 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT and lunches.
Average class size
Bishop’s Stortford College Prep & Pre-Prep School has two classes per year to Year 2, three from Year 3 rising to five from Year 7, and an average class size of 22 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
95% of Prep pupils move up to Bishop’s Stortford College. 5% of pupils go on to a grammar school at the end of Year 6.
The Bishop's Stortford College Prep & Pre-Prep School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum with some additions and variations. It also includes PSHEE, French, Spanish, German, Latin. Topic-based curriculum in Pre-Prep, discrete subject teaching in Prep. School broadens the curriculum with Activities Afternoons every week. 16-20 different activities on an 8 week cycle. Each pupil may participate in over 10 different extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers, Forest School for the youngest pupils and residential trips from Year 5.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, computing and languages throughout, for RE, drama, art and DT from Year 3, and for all subjects from Year 5.
Sport at Bishop's Stortford College Prep & Pre-Prep School
Four afternoons of sport per week. School is one of the 50 prep schools with the most extensive sports offers in the UK. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3. In recent years the school has enjoyed national success in cricket, football, hockey, rugby 7s.
The Arts at Bishop's Stortford College Prep & Pre-Prep School
Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. All pupils learn an instrument in class and half take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Two choirs, orchestra and several instrument ensembles. Each pupil may participate in up to 10 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.45am to 6.00pm.
Find another school near Bishop's Stortford College Prep & Pre-Prep School
Howe Green House (4.9 miles); St Edmund’s Prep, Ware (7.8 miles); Felsted Preparatory School (14.5 miles); Heath Mount School (15.2 miles); St Francis’ College, Prep & Pre-Prep (23.2 miles).
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Bishop’s Stortford (0.9 miles); St Michael’s Church of England Primary School, Bishop’s Stortford (1 mile); Summercroft Primary School (1.4 miles).
Bishop’s Stortford College (0 miles); St Edmund’s College, Ware (7.8 miles); Felsted School (15.3 miles).
St Mary’s Catholic School (0.6 miles); Hockerill Anglo-European College (1.4 miles); The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College (1.5 miles).