Broadway, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire SG6 3PJ
10 reasons to choose St Francis' College, Prep & Pre-Prep
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St Francis’ College, Prep & Pre-Prep has a Schoolsmith Score® of 81. It is one of the best independent prep schools in Letchworth Garden City and one of the 4 best primary schools for 2 miles.
School fundamentals
St Francis’ College, Prep & Pre-Prep is an independent prep day and boarding school for girls between the ages of 3 and 11 years. Boarding from Year 6 for the very small number of pupils who board. All are weekly or flexi boarders. It is a Christian school, open to all faiths and none. The school has a non-selective admissions policy. It is the prep school to St Francis College, an all-through school to age 18. Day fees at St Francis’ College, Prep & Pre-Prep range from £3,770 (Rec) to £4,890 per term (2022/23). Full boarding fees are £10,550 per term.
Average class size
St Francis’ College, Prep & Pre-Prep has one class per year and an average class size of 14 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
Most Prep pupils move up to St Francis’ College, Letchworth, at the end of Year 6.
The St Francis' College, Prep & Pre-Prep curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum with some additions and variations. It also includes PSHE, reasoning, philosophy, French, Latin. The school offers each child a handful of extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs. In recent years the school has enjoyed national tournament success in maths.
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, music, art, dance, drama, computing and languages throughout, and for most subjects from Year 4.
Sport at St Francis' College, Prep & Pre-Prep
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 St Francis' College, Prep & Pre-Prep
Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. All pupils learn an instrument in class and up to half take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Choir, orchestra and one or two instrument ensembles. The school offers each pupil over 5 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.45am to 6.00pm.
Find another school near St Francis' College, Prep & Pre-Prep
St Chris Junior School (0.7 miles); Kingshott School (4.8 miles); Sherrardswood Preparatory School (11.8 miles); Heath Mount School (14 miles); Aldwickbury School (18.9 miles); Beechwood Park School (19.5 miles).
Highover Junior Mixed and Infant School (1.5 miles); Ickleford Primary School (1.9 miles); Our Lady Catholic Primary School, Hitchin (3.1 miles).
St Francis’ College (0 miles); St Christopher School, Letchworth (0.7 miles); Sherrardswood School (11.8 miles); St Edmund’s College (17.3 miles).
The Highfield School (0.5 miles); The Knights Templar School (2.2 miles); Hitchin Girls’ School (2.6 miles).