Rickmansworth Park, Chorleywood Road, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire WD3 4HF
10 reasons to choose Royal Masonic School Cadogan House
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Royal Masonic School Cadogan House has a Schoolsmith Score® of 84. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around Rickmansworth and one of the 3 best primary schools for 1 mile.
School fundamentals
Royal Masonic School Cadogan House is an independent prep day and boarding school for girls between the ages of 2 and 11 years. It has a co-ed nursery. Boarding from Year 3 for the 10% of pupils who board. 70% are full boarders and 30% are weekly or flexi boarders. The school has an academically selective admissions policy from Year 1. It is the junior division of Royal Masonic School for Girls, an all-through school to age 18. Royal Masonic School Cadogan House fees range from £5,685 (Rec) to £7,326 per term (2025/26). Full boarding fees are £14,050 per term. Fees include VAT and lunches.
Average class size
Royal Masonic School Cadogan House has two classes per year and an average class size of 16 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
At the end of Year 6 most pupils move up from Cadogan House to the Royal Masonic School.
The Royal Masonic School Cadogan House curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum with some additions and variations. It also includes life skills, French, Spanish. 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, visiting speakers, Forest School in pre-prep and residential trips from Year 4.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for music, languages, computing, and sport throughout, and for science, DT and art from Year 3.
Sport at Royal Masonic School Cadogan House
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Representative teams in major sports from Year 3. In recent years the school has enjoyed national success in gymnastics.
The Arts at Royal Masonic School Cadogan House
Art and music are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. Drama is part of the co-curriculum. All pupils learn an instrument in class and three-quarters take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Three choirs, orchestra and some instrument ensembles. There are some extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 8.00am to 6.30pm. Facility for occasional boarding.
Find another school near Royal Masonic School Cadogan House
Charlotte House Preparatory School (0.4 miles); York House School (2.6 miles); Merchant Taylors’ Prep School (2.7 miles); Edge Grove School (7.8 miles); Lockers Park School (9.9 miles).
Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School (0.8 miles); St John’s Catholic Primary School, Rickmansworth (1.4 miles); Christ Church Chorleywood Church of England School (1.5 miles).
Royal Masonic School for Girls (0 miles); Northwood College (3.8 miles); St Helen’s School (4.1 miles); The Chalfonts Independent Grammar (4.2 miles); Purcell School (6.1 miles).
Rickmansworth School (1.4 miles); St Clement Danes School (2.1 miles); Watford Grammar School for Boys (3.3 miles).