Pullen's Lane, Headington, Oxford OX3 0BY
10 reasons to choose Headington Rye Oxford Prep School
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Headington Rye Oxford Prep School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 87. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around Oxford and one of the 3 best primary schools for 1 mile.
School fundamentals
Headington Rye Oxford Prep School is an independent prep day school for boys and girls (10%/90%) between the ages of 3 and 11 years. It is a CofE and Catholic school, open to all faiths and none. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is the prep school to Headington Rye Oxford, an all-through school to age 18. Headington Rye Oxford Prep School fees range from £4,878 (Rec) to £7,422 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT and lunches.
Average class size
Headington Rye Oxford Prep School has two or three classes per year and an average class size of 15 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
At the end of Year 6 most Prep School girls move up to Headington Rye Oxford. Boys move on to other local independent senior schools and prep schools.
The Headington Rye Oxford Prep School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, French. The school is one of the 50 prep schools with the most extensive academic and hobby extra-curricular programmes in the UK.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 5. All year groups have Forest School sessions.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, languages and computing throughout, for drama, art, DT and science from Year 3, and for most subjects from Year 5.
Sport at Headington Rye Oxford Prep School
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3. In recent years the school has enjoyed national success in swimming.
The Arts at Headington Rye Oxford 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, an orchestra and 10 instrument ensembles. Each pupil may participate in up to 10 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.30am to 6.15pm.
Find another school near Headington Rye Oxford Prep School
Magdalen College School, Junior School (1.3 miles); New College School (1.9 miles); Christ Church Cathedral School (2 miles); Summer Fields School (2.6 miles); Dragon School (3.1 miles).
St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School (0.3 miles); St Michael’s Church of England Primary School, Oxford (0.8 miles); St Andrew’s Church of England Primary School, Headington (1.3 miles).
Headington Rye School (0.7 miles); Magdalen College School (1.3 miles); St Edward’s School, Oxford (2.7 miles).
Cheney School (0.9 miles); The Cherwell School (2.1 miles); John Mason School (7.9 miles).