Dean Close School is situated on the outskirts of Cheltenham and is one of the oldest established co-educational independent senior schools. The Headmaster is a member of HMC.
The School prides itself on a friendly family atmosphere where everyone is known, and all have a place. Old fashioned standards of work, discipline and personal full involvement are maintained without a great deal of pressure by means of the co-operative spirit that prevails.
The School is well placed for travel by road, coach or rail to many parts of the country, and to Heathrow and Gatwick which benefits many expatriate parents. Parents are welcome to visit the School for matches, concerts, plays, etc, and can take their children out frequently.
The School has outstanding facilities with many new buildings including superb playing fields (including two Artificial Grass Pitches), Chapel, Theatre/Concert Hall, open air theatre, gymnasium, swimming pool, squash courts, home economics suite and well equipped laboratories and a Craft, Design Technology Centre. A new Music School will be completed in Autumn 1997. Everyone - day and boarding - has a workroom or study, and the boarders are placed in small sized houses with substantial study bedroom accommodation for the seniors.
The Curriculum expects everyone to achieve GCSE, 'A' levels and a move to higher education. A large Sixth Form ensures a wide choice of 'A' level subjects and every year the best pupils achieve places at Oxford and Cambridge. The precise curriculum is published with the prospectus, and a Sixth Form curriculum document is also available.
Everyone in the School is encouraged to play a wide range of sports, and to participate in some of the many clubs and hobbies that we run. The aim is that no-one in the School need be deprived of something in which to excel; this means that all pupils gain self-confidence to tackle the major hurdles in life and also makes a notable contribution to the general contentment referred to above.
The founding purpose of the School, which has not been forgotten today, is to show that a personal Christian faith is the only sound basis for modern living.
