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Discover Leighton Park, a leading UK independent school, offering modern boarding 25 minutes from Central London and 20 minutes from Oxford. 20% of our students are international from 45 different countries.
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Reasons Our Families Choose Leighton Park

  • Leighton Park is located between London and Oxford – 25 minutes on the train to London Paddington and 20 minutes to Oxford. We are also 30 minutes in a taxi from London Heathrow
  • Leighton Park won Senior School of the Year in the Independent Schools Association Awards 2023-24 and was a Finalist for Indpendent School of the Year in the TES Schools Awards 2023-24. We also won the national Independent Schools Association Award for Excellence in Pupil Personal Development in 2022-23
  • The School is in 65 acres of beautiful parkland, offering students a safe, calm and healthy environment to live in
  • Our boarding students live with five of their teachers in each boarding house – making it no surprise that our boarding students outperform our day students.

The advantages of the IB Diploma Programme

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme stands as a beacon of excellence in modern education, developing students into forward-thinking, globally aware individuals.

  • Our IB Diploma Programme benefits from small class sizes (average of 7 students per class)
  • 97% of UK University Admissions Tutors rate the IB Diploma the best preparation for university study
  • IB Diploma students are three times more likely to enrol in a UK top 20 university
  • Students benefit from specialist university and careers support including pathways for Oxbridge, Medicine, Law and overseas universities.

Find out more about the IB Diploma at Leighton Park.

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Recent Awards

ISA Future Readiness

National leader for Future Readiness 2024

Leighton Park has been recognised as a national leader for preparing students to thrive in a fast-changing world, winning the Independent Schools Association (ISA) Award for Future Readiness 2024.
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Muddy Award for Most Inclusive School

Most Inclusive School of the Year 2024

Leighton Park is a Finalist for the Most Inclusive School of the Year Award 2024 in Muddy's Best Schools Awards. We were also Highly Commended in their Giving Something Back award category.
Read about our award-winning pastoral car +
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Independent Senior School of the Year 2023-24

Leighton Park won the prestigious Senior School of the Year award at the Indpendent Schools Association ISA Awards 2023. We were also a Finalist for the Award for Excellence in Sustainability in the same awards.
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TES Award

Independent Senior School of the Year 2023

Leighton Park has been shortlisted for the prestigious ‘Independent Senior School of the Year’ award in the 2023 TES (Times Education Supplement) School Awards. This is one of the most sought after awards in education, recognising leading practice in the country’s top schools.
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Top performing school in England

The UK Government's most recent analysis places Leighton Park as the best performing school in Berkshire for the academic progress achieved by our Sixth Form leavers. We are one of eight schools in England to have always been in the top 100.
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National leader for Pupil Personal Development

We won the ISA national award for Excellence in Pupil Personal Development 2022. Our students gain confidence and a strong sense of purpose to achieve their potential.
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Multi award-winning pastoral care

Our leading pastoral care is underpinned by small tutor groups, first name terms, innovative use of technology and close support for students to develop a strong sense of self.
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Excellent in all areas - ISI report

The Independent School Inspectorate (ISI) have awarded Leighton Park 'excellent' in all areas, the highest possible attainment for an independent school.
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Take a look around

This tour is intended to give a glimpse into some of the spaces that our students love. It does not represent every department so please view our curriculum and course finder pages to see the 90 co-curricular options, 27 GCSE-level choices and impressive range of programmes on our A Level and IB Diploma Programme in the Sixth Form.

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