Private school Christ's Hospital School

Christ's Hospital School

Christ's Hospital School was founded in 1552. The school is located in West Sussex in the south-east of England. It is set in 485 hectares of beautiful countryside between London and Brighton. Its location is advantageous as the school has its own train line with regular services to London, Gatwick Airport and the south coast of England. The train journey to London takes about an hour.

The school prides itself on maintaining its traditions. The dinner march, the Tudor school uniform which has remained virtually unchanged for over 460 years, high academic and sporting achievements, ceremonies — all this distinguishes the school even today.

The school has about 900 students.

Headmaster (as of 2026)

Simon Reid, educated at the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa).

Famous graduates of the school

• Percy Pine, president of one of the largest American banks, City National Bank
• William Nye, personal secretary to Prince Charles
• Arthur Bowley, economist
• Jason Flemyng, actor (the films "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels", "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button")
• Cyril Burt, the most popular psychologist in Great Britain
• Samuel Coleridge, poet
• Frankmusic, musician
• Roger Allam, actor (films "V for Vendetta", "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides", TV series "Game of Thrones")
• Chris Steele-Perkins, photographer
• John Colborne, field marshal
• William Burnside, mathematician
• Henry Cole, illustrator and artist
• Colin Davis, conductor

Key factors

• Impressive exam results.
• Graduates go on to top universities, including Oxford and Cambridge.
• More than 100 young musicians make up the famous school orchestra, which meets six days a week to lead the entire school through the school's vast courtyard at lunchtime. It is a unique and exciting tradition. Today the band has an impressive track record, including accompanying the school on its annual parade through the City of London.

Facilities

The classrooms are equipped with interactive whiteboards and digital projectors, and there is a computer language laboratory. The science school is dedicated to natural sciences, with well-equipped laboratories. There are four such laboratories for physics alone, including a darkened room for high-precision experiments.

In 2007, the Doyle School of Design and Technology was equipped with funds from a former alumnus, the multimillionaire inventor John Doyle. Today it includes a modern IT studio, a graphics and design studio, 4 workshops, a foundry, an electronics and robotics laboratory, a room with a computer-aided design and programming system containing a 3D printer, industrial CNC machines, lasers and CNC routers.

The school owns one of the most technically equipped and beautiful theaters in the country (designed for 500 spectators), an excellent library, a music school and an art school. Excellent facilities for music: 25 practice rooms, a fully equipped recording studio, a music library, an orchestra room, a 500-seat theatre, a 750-seat concert hall and a chapel that seats up to 1,000.

For sport, there is a 25-metre indoor swimming pool with 6 lanes, a gym and two sports halls with dozens of playing fields and a full range of gymnastics equipment, 6 squash courts, 17 rugby pitches and 19 football pitches, 7 netball courts and 15 tennis courts, 5 grass and all-weather hockey pitches and dozens of cricket pitches.

Program

GCSE

A two-year programme leading to the General Certificate of Secondary Education. Compulsory 6 subjects, 4 subjects are optional.
What is the difference between IGCSE and GCSE programmes?

A-level

A two-year program to prepare for admission to university. Students choose 4 or 5 subjects for in-depth study.
Find out more about A-level program

Accommodation and meals

Accommodation in a residence on the school grounds. There are 8 houses for girls and 8 for boys, each accommodating 45-50 people. The houses also have educators who look after the children, help them with everyday issues. The school has a well-equipped medical center. Qualified nurses work 24 hours a day.

Each house hosts its own events. The teachers take the students to the theatre, cinema and bowling, and give them treats - just like real parents. Such events are held every Wednesday evening and most Saturday evenings. The teachers support the students when they perform at concerts, plays or sporting events.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served in the huge school canteen, similar to the dining hall at Hogwarts. The walls are especially striking for the imagination, with outstanding paintings by past masters, including a 26-metre-long painting by Antonio Verrio depicting a moment in the school's history. It is one of the largest paintings in the world.

The students are offered a balanced diet, including a large selection of vegetables and fruit. Each house has a well-equipped kitchen where children can make their own sandwiches, snacks and drinks.

Sport

Sports at school: athletics, badminton, basketball, cricket, cross-country running, football, hockey, netball, rounders, rugby, squash, swimming, tennis, volleyball.

Extracurricular Activities

Christ's Hospital School encourages pupils to develop their talents in a variety of areas. The extracurricular activities programme allows pupils to step out of their comfort zone and discover a new side of themselves, acquire leadership skills and the ability to work in a team. The school offers a wide range of music, theatre and art classes, sports events, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award programme, Young Entrepreneurs, Model UN, Combined Cadet Corps (CCF), Chess, Debate and more. These activities help students grow in confidence, self-reliance and self-motivation.

The school encourages students to perform in theatre. Students perform classical and contemporary plays, musicals, ballet and dance, and opera.

Music has been at the heart of the school for 400 years, best represented through the renowned orchestra that accompanies the students on their daily lunchtime march, and the Chapel Choir, in which over 10 per cent of the entire school are members. Over 600 private music lessons are offered each week, taught by an excellent team of full-time and visiting teachers. Pupils of all ages and abilities are encouraged and inspired to develop their musical skills, whether it is joining the annual singing competition, playing in one of the school ensembles or forming their own rock band with friends.

Fees, 2026-2027

£17,565 - £18,795 per term.
There are 3 terms in the academic year.

Included in the price

• Tuition
• Accommodation and meals
• English as a foreign language classes

Additional charges

• Registration fee - £120
• Deposit - the cost of 1semester
• Flight
• Transfers to/from the airport
• Visa
• Educational company services
• Selecting a guardian, which is a mandatory requirement of the British school

Our services and fees

Impressions of visiting the school

Natalia Shtrayn
Founder of the company "Paradise"

Remember Mark Twain's fairy tale "The Prince and the Pauper"? A street boy, Tom Canty, changes places with the Crown Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VI. Tom Canty adapts and copes well. The tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it: give any child a chance, and he will surprise you with the royal scope of his abilities.

One day, the very real King Edward VI called together the oligarchs and demanded that they invest in a school whose name - Christ's Hospital - is known in England about as well as "Plekhanovka" in our country. The sons and daughters of ordinary people study in this grand architectural ensemble: 85% live and study entirely or almost entirely at the expense of the school!

Christ's Hospital School is striking in its scope and is rich in earnest: through the centuries, the institution has preserved thousands of hectares of land, which are still rented out to farmers. Real estate in London brings in considerable dividends. Financial advisers select the most profitable investment portfolios for the school.

Only 12% of students are foreigners. They pay in full. And for good reason. A grandiose architectural ensemble, state-of-the-art equipment and high academic performance. The motivation of the student body is so concentrated that you can almost feel it. Here, any child, caught in a whirlpool of frantic determination, will shed the remnants of his former infantilism, like a reptile sheds its old skin. Renewal is inevitable!

True, to get here you need to have a burning desire to learn and pass serious testing. And for those who pay, the bar is no lower than for the darlings of fate who received a free place.

This is the beauty of the English system: money is nothing, knowledge and passion are everything!