36 Kent Road, Southsea, Hampshire PO5 3ES
10 reasons to choose Portsmouth High Prep School
Main point of differentiation
Portsmouth High Prep School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 81, and offers the best value for money among prep schools in Portsmouth and Fareham. It is the only girls’ prep in the area, is selective, and has a thematic curriculum throughout.
School fundamentals
Portsmouth High Prep School is an independent prep day school for girls between the ages of 3 and 11 years. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is the prep department of Portsmouth High School, an all-through school to age 18, and is a member of the Girls’ Day School Trust. Portsmouth High Prep School fees range from £3,585 (Rec) to £4,726 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT but exclude lunches.
Average class size
Portsmouth High Prep School has one class per year and an average class size of 20 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
At the end of Year 6, most Prep pupils move up to Portsmouth High School.
The Portsmouth High Prep School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and also includes PSHE, reasoning, French, Mandarin, Latin. The approach is thematic to Year 2, and subjects are taught separately from Year 3, though skills are developed through the ‘Explorers’ approach. 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 and visiting speakers. Pupils in all year groups participate in Beach School and Forest School sessions. Residential trips from Year 5.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music and languages throughout, and for most subjects from Year 3.
Sport at Portsmouth High Prep 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 Portsmouth High Prep School
Art and music are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils, as is drama for one term per year from Year 3. All pupils learn an instrument in class and two-thirds 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 7.30am to 6.00pm.
Find another school near Portsmouth High Prep School
Mayville High Pre-Prep & Junior Schools (0.5 miles); Portsmouth Grammar Junior School (0.8 miles); Boundary Oak School, Prep and Pre-Prep (9.3 miles).
Harrison Primary School (8.8 miles); St Alban’s Church of England Primary School (9 miles); Redlands Primary School (9.1 miles).
Portsmouth High School (0.2 miles); Mayville High School (0.5 miles); The Portsmouth Grammar School (0.8 miles).
St Edmund’s Catholic School (1.3 miles); Cams Hill School (7.7 miles); Oaklands Catholic School (7.8 miles).