Bawnmore Road, Bilton, Rugby, Warwickshire CV22 7QH
10 reasons to choose Crescent School
Top line
Crescent School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 80. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around Rugby and one of the 3 best primary schools for 3 miles.
School fundamentals
Crescent School is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (50%/50%) between the ages of 4 and 11 years. The school has a non-selective admissions policy. It is the junior division of Princethorpe College, an all-through school to age 18, and is a member of The Princethorpe Foundation. Crescent School fees range from £4,197 (Rec) to £4,591 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT but exclude lunches.
Average class size
Crescent School usually has one class per year, sometimes two, and an average class size of 21 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
At the end of Year 6, most Crescent School pupils move up to Princethorpe College, its senior school. Otherwise, they leave for one of 10 local independent and grammar schools.
The Crescent School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, thinking skills, reasoning, French, Spanish, Latin. The school offers each child a handful of extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, and residential trips from Year 3.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, computing, and languages throughout, and for most subjects from Year 5.
Sport at Crescent School
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 Crescent School
Art and music are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. Curricular speech & drama lessons from Year 3. All pupils learn an instrument in class and two-thirds take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Choir and one or two instrument ensembles. There are some extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.45am to 6.00pm.
Find another school near Crescent School
Bilton Grange School (2.2 miles); Pattison College, Prep School (11 miles); King Henry VIII Junior School (12.5 miles).
Dunchurch Boughton Church of England Junior School (2 miles); Sherrier Church of England Primary School (9 miles); Welton Church of England Academy (9.5 miles).
Rugby School (1.6 miles); Princethorpe College (7.3 miles); Pattison College (11 miles).
Rugby High School (0.4 miles); Lawrence Sheriff School (2.1 miles); Ashlawn School (3.3 miles).