St Clare’s, Oxford
St Clares Oxford
Org 1: ISA
139 Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7AL
Telephone: 01865 552031
Open events: In person: Saturday 19 September 2026; Virtual: Saturday 21 November 2026
Key dates: Autumn term: Thursday 3 September 2026 to Friday 18 December 2026
Half term: Saturday 24 October 2026 to Sunday 1 November 2026
Spring term: Monday 4 January 2027 to Thursday 25 March 2027
Half term: Saturday 13 February 2027 to Sunday 21 February 2027
Summer term: Monday 12 April 2027 to Thursday 24 June 2027
Age Range: Senior to 18
Day or Boarding: Day, Full Boarding
Gender: Co-ed
Exams offered: International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma
Scholarships Tick: Academic
Bursaries and discounts: New entrant bursary, Sibling discount
Scholarships for the International Baccalaureate Diploma
Day and Boarding Scholarships available (Full and partial awards).
Anne Dreydel Foundation Scholarship
A select number of our scholarship awards are designated as the ‘Anne Dreydel Foundation Scholarships’ our founder in 1953 and run for the full two years of the IB Diploma:
•Day places: The maximum scholarship award covers the IB tuition fees
•Boarding places: The maximum scholarship award covers the IB tuition and residential fees
Partial scholarship awards
We also offer partial awards which apply for the full two years of the IB Diploma:
•Day places: The scholarship award covers a percentage of the IB tuition fees
•Boarding places: The scholarship award covers a percentage of the IB tuition and residential fees
Principal: Mr Duncan Reith, MA Oxon, MA Open University, PGCE Roehampton, MBA Durham
Vice Principal Pastoral: Emily Woodeson, BA Oxon, PGCE Oxon
Vice Principal Academic: David White, BA Southampton, PGCE Bath, PG Dip Glasgow, MA Staffordshire
Age range. 15–19 Co-educational.
Number of students. 230.
Fees per annum (2026-2027). Boarding: £55,223; Day: £25,890.
Ours is an education unlike any other in the UK. St Clare’s, Oxford, is a remarkable place of global education for remarkable young people, advancing international education and understanding for over 70 years.
We are a world-leading International Baccalaureate World School, the first in England, attracting students from over 50 countries and embracing internationalism and academic excellence as our core values. Our teachers write the IB textbooks and teach the teachers of the future, and our results are consistently sector-leading and far above global averages. Our 2026 cohort achieved an average points score of 36, significantly above the world average of 31, nearly a quarter achieved 40 points or more, and we regularly have students achieve the maximum IB score of 45, placing them in the top 1% globally.
Everyone in our community is united by one key motivation: to step out of their comfort zones to grow, and to be the most globally aware and academically ambitious version of themselves. Ours is thus a culture of challenge. Walking around, you see individualism and character, engagement with the community, independence, responsibility, and happy, fulfilled young people readying themselves for the world. This is just one reason why independent analysts show that our students consistently make more academic progress here than they would at most other IB schools in the UK.
To be at St Clare’s is to feel freedom and benefit of choice; to stand on top of a mountain with every direction available to you. Any career, any location, any direction for your future made possible. Our Careers and Higher Education support is among the best in the world, sending students to the top-ranking universities worldwide but, more importantly, to the right university for them. This is where aspiration and ambition meet knowledge and experience.
We believe that academic achievement matters and lays the foundations for prosperous futures, and that independence is the greatest skill a person – and a mind – can learn. St Clare’s is a place for those who think differently. We help young people become academically successful, self-reliant, and aware of the world. Be challenged, be independent, be remarkable.
Charitable status. St Clare’s, Oxford, is a Registered Charity, number 294085.