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Now accepting more Day Pupils for September 2025! Learn more at our Open Event on Thursday 9 May. Back to top. Downe House School - An independent boarding and day school in Berkshire for girls aged 11-18, Downe House is a traditional school with a sharp focus on the future.
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Downe House was founded in 1907 by Olive Willis, its first headmistress, as an all-girls' boarding school. Its first home was Down House in the village of Downe, Kent (now part of the London Borough of Bromley), which had been the home of Charles Darwin. By 1921 Down House was too small for the school, so Willis bought The Cloisters, Cold Ash, Berk...
As most girls at Downe House are boarders, the house system is incorporated with the boarding programme. Three boarding houses home the youngest students, after which they progress to a mixed-age house until Sixth Form The houses are: 1. Lower School (ages 11–13) 1.1. Hill 1.2. Hermitage 1.3. Darwin 2. Upper School (ages 13–16) 2.1. AGN (Ancren Gat...
Downe House educates girls between the ages of eleven and eighteen, taking them from the last years of junior school through to the sixth form. Girls can join the school at the ages of eleven, twelve, or thirteen, on leaving a primary or prep school, or at sixteen after completing GCSEs. The biggest intake of girls is at 11+. Entry into Downe House...
The core subjects at Downe House are English, Mathematics and Science as well as Humanities, Classics and Social Sciences subjects and there are options such as Fine Arts, Foreign Languages and Business Studies. In 2010, the Cambridge Pre-U was introduced as an alternative to A Levelsat Downe House.
In 2004, as reported by The Times, Downe House was one of about sixty of the country's leading independent schools which were accused of running an unlawful price-fixing cartel, contrary to the Competition Act 1998, enabling them to drive up fees charged to thousands of parents. After an Inquiry later that year, in 2005 the school was ordered to pa...
Clare Balding (b. 1971), BBCsports presenterTessa Dahl (b. 1957), daughter of Roald Dahland Patricia NealAtkins, Hedley (1976). "Downe House School". Down: the Home of the Darwins: the story of a house and the people who lived there (2nd ed.). [Chichester]: Phillimore. pp. 106–110. ISBN 0-85033-231-1.Bowen, Elizabeth (1950). "The Mulberry Tree". Collected Impressions. London: Longmans Green and Co. pp. 185–194. (Describes life at Downe House during World War I)Horsler, Val; Kingsland, Jenny (2006). Downe House: a Mystery and a Miracle. London: Third Millennium Publishing. ISBN 978-1-903942-50-5.Ridler, Anne (1967). Olive Willis and Downe House: an adventure in education. London: John Murray. At openlibrary.orgProfile on the ISCwebsite- 1907
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Located within one hour of London, it has grown to be widely recognised as one of the top girls’ schools in the world. Discover. DHR | An independent all girl boarding school in Muscat aged 11-18, Downe House is a traditional school with a sharp focus on the future.
For over 100 years, Downe House has nurtured girls from young children, through their teenage years and into adulthood. Our spectacular, new school in Muscat harnesses that heritage by offering girls a tailored education that combines the best of British with the tradition of and respect for Arabic culture.
Widely recognised as one of the leading all-girls’ schools in the UK, Downe House also features in the independently researched Fortune/Statista list of 100 World’s Top Boardings Schools 2023. Established in 1907, Downe House is a traditional boarding and day school with a modern approach for girls aged 11-18.
