Cheltenham Ladies’ College
A very highly regarded all girls school in the town of Cheltenham. The campus is spread across various buildings in the town with extremely impressive facilities. For students aged 11-18 (years 7-13).
Ideal student
A bright, purposeful girl who enjoys intellectual challenge but also wants to take full advantage of the breadth of opportunities on offer. Cheltenham Ladies’ tends to suit articulate, curious students who are open-minded, energetic and keen to engage in school life well beyond the classroom.
Main sports
Hockey, netball, lacrosse and tennis form the core team sports. There is also a broad additional offering including athletics, badminton, trampolining and rowing.
Stand-out facilities
The Parabola Arts Centre theatre and the historic Princess Hall provide exceptional performance spaces, reflecting the strength of the arts across the school. Engineering, enterprise and technology facilities also stand out, supporting innovation projects from robotics to design engineering.
Saturday school
Yes - Saturday morning lessons form part of the timetable, with sport and other activities taking place in the afternoon.
Did you know?
Cheltenham Ladies’ has developed a significant engineering, enterprise and technology programme, introduced to encourage more girls into STEM.
Our takeaway
Cheltenham Ladies’ remains one of the country’s most academically serious girls’ schools, attracting a confident and globally minded pupil body. There is a strong sense of heritage and tradition running through the college, alongside a notably international intake and a number of long-established British families.
"A life lived with meaning and purpose with be different for each one of us, and the self-knowledge developed in our formative years can be an invaluable compass in finding our way towards this."
School Information
| Year | A* – A | A* – B |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 59.6 | 85.9 | 2018 | 69.8 | 93 | 2019 | 74.5 | 90.2 | 2022 | 77 | 2023 | 72.6 | 90.9 |
| Year | Average | 7 - 6 | 7 - 5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 39.9 | 2018 | 38.4 | 79 | 94.2 | 2019 | 40.4 | 86.8 | 100 | 2022 | 41.5 | 2023 | 39.1 |
| Year | 9 - 8 | 9 - 7 |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 69.5 | 90.7 | 2018 | 74.5 | 92.5 | 2019 | 73.9 | 90.3 | 2022 | 2023 | 73.5 | 88.3 |
| Destination | Percentage (%) |
|---|---|
| Oxbridge | 6% |
| Sutton 13 The 13 best UK universities based on average rankings from surveys: Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh, Imperial, LSE, Nottingham, Oxford, St Andrews, UCL, Warwick, York. | 51% |
| Other UK Universities | 32% |
| US Ivy League | 2% |
| Other US Universities | 6% |
| European Universities | 2% |
| Other international Universities | 2% |
