Cranbrook School

Cranbrook School is a genuinely unique place. We are a fully co-educational, state-funded selective day and boarding grammar school, with a 500-year history, in the heart of the glorious Wealden countryside in southeast England. It is one of only a small number of state boarding schools in the UK.

We are small enough to know our students well as individuals, yet large enough to provide a rich and varied educational experience. We have three simple aims:

• To provide an outstanding all-round education with academic fulfilment at its heart
• To develop curious, resilient and emphatic young adults, who are confident to follow their own paths.
• To add value to our local community and provide exceptional boarding for those outside it.

Our students thrive thanks to the breadth and challenge of our curriculum, and our emphasis on growing character as much as minds. Opportunities for independent thought and leadership are many. Our boarders are the beating heart of the school and enrich our small community with different cultures and perspectives. As a state school, Cranbrook’s boarding is incredibly good value for money – parents pay only for the boarding experience.

The values that infuse all that we do are:

• Kindness
• Integrity
• Curiosity
• Aspiration
• Individuality

We balance a traditional academic curriculum with a busy co-curriculum of competitive sport, music, drama, CCF, DofE and student-led societies. Our academic results are consistently among the best of state schools in the country, and our leavers head to a variety of top destinations, including Oxbridge and many Russell Group universities.

Our 228 boarders give us a rare and special dimension among grammar schools. Their experience in our boarding family is happy and vibrant thanks to the excellent accommodation in our six Houses, our skilled, dedicated House teams, and an extensive programme of activities.

Cranbrook is a beautiful place to live and grow up. With 75 acres of our own green space on the site, we are an integral part of the aerial patchwork of the Weald’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – it’s fantastic for the wellbeing of both students and staff. We are half an hour from the coast, and less than one hour commute from London.