King Edward’s Senior, North Road, Bath BA2 6HU
Tel: 01225 464313; Web: kesbath.com
Name of Head: Mr Martin Boden
Age of pupils: Senior School: 11 – 18 years
Number of pupils: Senior School – 901 (as at June 2025)
Fee Structure (per term): Senior School £7,254; Sixth Form £7,380
Co-ed day school
The curriculum: Throughout our curriculum, there is an underlying appreciation that pupils succeed best when taught interesting and engaging lessons by enthusiastic, specialist staff. We want our pupils to leave here with valuable study skills, having found their intellectual and academic passion and having fulfilled their potential in that area. “Proud to remain academically pacy but equally proud that it’s also an enriching and nurturing school in which pupils thrive.” The Good Schools Guide.
Co-curricular activities: King Edward’s School aims to provide a thriving and continuously evolving co-curricular programme by offering a broad range of opportunities for pupils. We expect engagement from pupils with our co-curricular programme, and our watchwords are breadth and opportunity. Activities include the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Ten Tors Challenge, Esports, Model United Nations, Combined Cadet Force, sports, drama and music – the latter enjoying partnerships with Bath Abbey and Bath Philharmonia. “Pupils’ engagement with the broad and varied extra-curricular programme is outstanding.” ISI Report 2023.
Pastoral care: King Edward’s is a happy and successful school, with the social and emotional wellbeing of pupils central to all that we do. We get to know our pupils well and build open and trusting relationships so that the children who arrive in Year 7 can flourish in all areas of school life and develop into confident, thoughtful and engaging young adults. We value tolerance and kindness and work hard to develop resilience and independence. Two notable aspects of our pastoral care programme include our Learning for Life Programme which tackles relevant teen issues, and our Peer Mentoring Programme in which over 200 pupils participate.
Outstanding characteristics: Awarded ‘excellent’ in the most recent whole school ISI report, with the school’s extra-curricular provision achieving ‘outstanding’. The school has previously been awarded Independent School of the Year for Performing Arts in the Independent Schools of the Year Awards. King Edward’s is routinely the top performing co-educational independent schools in the southwest for its outstanding A Level and GCSE results, as noted in the influential Parent Power survey commissioned by The Sunday Times. In summary, The Good Schools Guide states that, “KES ticks all the boxes as a very alluring option in Bath.”