Rugby School

Inclusive, Innovative, Industrious

Rugby School is one of the UK’s very few true 7-days-a-week coeducational boarding schools. A high level of pastoral support ensures that students make the most of the extraordinary range of opportunities available. Academic excellence, with a choice of IB Diploma or A level, alongside a huge co-curricular programme delivers on our Whole Person Whole Point ethos. Our Scholars’ Pathway offers an exciting journey, while the Oxbridge Programme gives students the best chance of success. An outstanding sports department has the motto ‘nobody on the bench’, ensuring that everyone contributes. Our professional coaches ‘go the extra mile’, and many students play at county, national and international level. Music and drama are equally inclusive, running programmes for all students. Elite musicians perform with professional orchestras; actors are members of the National Theatre, taking their talent to the Edinburgh Fringe every year. As our Head Master, Gareth Parker-Jones says: “What I see here, time and time again, is that once a student becomes good at one thing and enjoys doing it, they soon become good at something else. And then something else again. In this way Rugby helps our students form the habit of doing things well - of being good at life.”