Private school Millfield Senior School

"This is Millfield"

Millfield School, founded in 1935, today is one of the most prestigious and largest private schools in the UK. 1250 people study in it. The school is located in the amazingly beautiful area of the county of Somerset - in the city of Street, 2 hours from London and has a huge private territory of about 50 hectares.

The school is located in picturesque countryside near the historic town of Glastonbury and the ancient city of Bath, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

DIRECTOR (stand 2026)

Gavin Horgan, Education - University of Oxford.

Famous school graduates

• Anthony Allen, rugby player
• Prince Abbas Hilmi, Egyptian prince and financier
• Alexander, Prince of Yugoslavia
• Joan Atkinson, swimmer, Olympic winner
• Lily Allen, singer
• Lucy Bailey, theatre director
• Brian Barnes, golfer
• Stephen Batchelor, hockey player, Olympic Games winner
• John Lane Bell, mathematician and philosopher
• Mary Bignell Rand, jumper, Olympic winner
• Tony Blackburn, Radio DJ
• Sam Bird, race car driver
• John Break, rugby player
• Baron Michael Broham, politician
• Andrew Castle, tennis player
• Stuart Copeland, musician
• Jason Conner, actor (the film "Shanghai Noon", the series "Doctor Who", "Smallville Secrets")
• Harry Cowell, music producer
• Mark Cox, tennis player
• Cuchima Centel, Miss Thailand 2009
• Sophie Dale, Model
• Charles James Denton, businessman
• Lord Jago Eliott, champion in surfing
• Mark Foster, swimmer, Olympic winner
• Helen Fox, writer
• Helen Glover, Olympic rowing winner
• Abi Griffiths, TV Announcer
• Victoria Glendening, writer
• Margot James, politician
• John Kovalik, animator
• Rose Leslie, actress (film "Now is the time", the series "Game of Thrones", "Downton Abbey")
• Bradley Middleton, football player
• Rob Skipper, guitarist for The Holloways
• Peter Wilson, winner of the Olympic Shooting Games
• Professor Christopher Wickman, historian
• Nicolette Sheridan, actress (film "Crazy Scaffolds", the series "Desperate Housewives", "Will and Grace")

KEY FACTORS

• Great location in beautiful countryside.
• Elegant equipment of the school.
• Comfortable living conditions.
• Almost all sports are represented.
• The school has a reputation for being the most athletic school in the UK.
• Professional and inspiring teachers.
• Small classes, which allows you to pay attention to each student.

EQUIPMENT

The school territory has a huge amount of resources for recreation and effective training, sports and creativity:

• centre of art and design with the latest equipment
• math centre
• computer and language lab
• library
• science lab
• 50-meter Olympic swimming pool
• 3 hockey rinks with artificial ice
• first-class riding centre
• fitness centre
• athletic arena
• 3 indoor tennis courts
• 3 grass courts
• 9 gravel courts
• 12 courts with artificial turf
• golf course
• 6 squash courts
• 2 gyms
• dance studio
• Music studio
• concert hall with 350 seats
• school theatre with 500 seats
• lounges
• round-the-clock medical centre
• dining room
• chapel
• 9 new school residences.

PROGRAM

GCSE

At 10 and 11 years of study, students choose from 6 to 12 subjects for which they will pass the GCSE (certificate of general secondary education).
What is the difference between IGCSE and GCSE programmes?

A-level

Two-year course. The curriculum consists of 4 blocks. From each block, the student selects one subject to study. In the second year, only 3 subjects are selected for study.
Find out more about A-level program

BTEC

An alternative to the A-level program: a pre-university preparation course with a strong emphasis on developing practical skills and applying theoretical knowledge to real-world situations. BTEC qualifications are available in the following subjects: art and design, sports, music production, and nutrition science.
Find out more about BTEC program

ACCOMMODATION AND FOOD

The school has 19 residences: 7 houses for girls and 12 houses for boys. Accommodation in 1-2-bed rooms. Almost all rooms have a bathroom and toilet. Each student has a workplace and his own closet for storing things. All residences are equipped with modern appliances and furniture. Each residence has a common room with a TV and DVD, Wi-Fi, a kitchen where you can prepare light snacks.

Meals - full board, meals take place in a large school cafeteria. It is possible to select a special diet in accordance with individual, medical or religious preferences.

Each house is run by experienced leaders - children are constantly supervised.

SPORT

Sport plays a key role in school philosophy. It helps to grow healthy, active children, to raise such important qualities as self-confidence, flexibility and ability to hold a blow. Physical education also teaches the ability to work in a team and reveals leadership qualities.

The students can choose from the following sports:

• Athletics
• Badminton
• Basketball
• Chess
• shooting
• Cricket
• Squash
• Cross country
• Dancing
• Fencing
• Karate
• Football
• Golf
• Hockey
• swimming
• Triathlon
• Netball
• Rowing
• Horse Riding and Polo
• Rugby
• Skiing
• Tennis

ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES

In their free time, children attend hobby groups or play sports. There are more than 80 interest clubs and clubs for students, including: basketball, boxing, cars, climbing, cooking, hip-hop, interior design, painting, linguistics, rowing, softball, theatre, textile design. Huge opportunities for creative children are offered by the school art centre: drawing, modelling, photography, etc. Students take part in the struggle for the prize of the Duke of Edinburgh.

In the evenings, entertainment events, contests, performances, games are held. The school organizes regular hiking and weekend excursions.

COST, 2026-2027

£20,205 per semester.
There are 3 semesters in the school year.

Included in cost

• Teaching
• Accommodation and meals

Extra paid

• Flights
• Transfers to / from the airport
• Visa
• Services of the company "Paradise"
• Guardianship (as required by British law)

Our services and fees

Our experts' impressions from visiting the school

Our first thought as the taxi driver drove us around the place called Street and showed us the different school buildings and sports fields was, ‘No way!’. We had never seen such an immense area - 150 acres (60 hectares). If there are any sports that cannot be played at Millfield School, it is no exaggeration to say that the list is extremely short.

28 different sports and 80 activities are represented at the school. Golf, football, cricket courses, one of the best 50 metre swimming pools in the country (where the national team trained during the London Olympics), a state of the art sports hall. Wow! 5 Olympic coaches work with the kids, helping them to fulfil their potential.

However, according to the Head of Admissions, Milfield School is not a ‘sporting’ school, but offers the children opportunities to develop different sides of their personality. The school's very good music and theatre departments will allow creative individuals to excel.

The Art and Technology Design Department, for which the school has a separate new building, is worth paying special attention to. The works of children simply amaze with their beauty, originality and professionalism. Here you will find magnificent portraits, worthy, in our opinion, of the best galleries (and we have seen a lot of things in schools!), and graduation works of pupils in the form of table lamps of interesting design, which somehow miraculously connect to the home music system.

Although the school is large (about 1200 students), it manages to keep very good control over the children and pay maximum attention to their academic growth. 240 teachers and sports coaches and an impressive teacher to student ratio of 1 to 6.5.

According to the famous publication The Good School's Guide, ‘This is one of the few schools that can truly offer every child everything they want to do.’

With its consistently good academic performance, Millfield is an excellent, good school for those who want to develop their all-round development. And, of course, for those who want to excel in their favourite sport and even get a scholarship to study at a US university!

Millfield school is Britain's ‘Olympic reserve school’. But not only that! Millfield is the Olympic village of Great Britain. The list of world and OLYMPIC champions trained here is endless. Whilst academics - by very high English standards - have never been Millfield's strong point, it remains a GREAT boarding school which, unlike many British schools, welcomes children of all abilities. However, it is fair to say that an ‘academically weak’ British school is 27% ABLE to graduate! Imagine that: 27 out of 100 are medallists.

Millfield is HUGE - 1200 kids, 120 hectares of land, not suitable for the insecure and modest. And, as one foreign dad put it, ‘not the kind of school where you send your son to learn to talk like a gentleman’. But what a standard of living! Our mums are in awe!

They come to Millfield to spread out into teams. Real pros from other schools, who played rugby and hockey there, swimmers and skiers from the ‘A’ teams, suddenly find themselves in the ‘C’ teams here, they are SHOCKED at the HIGH LEVELS!

Tennis courts, stadiums, a shooting range, three hockey astro-poles, hectares of playgrounds, fencing and judo halls, a riding centre with indoor and outdoor arenas, stables for 53 horses. Here you can take the British Horse Society instructor's certificate. Training continues after school 6 days a week and STIPENDIARIES can even be awarded for excelling at chess!

From Milfield go to American Universities with a scholarship, often this means 100% Cover of all expenses. So if your child is a star athlete, you have a chance to get a brilliant AMERICAN higher education for FREE.

But never is academics sacrificed for sports. What's more, the junior champions perform a play in the school's 500-seat theatre twice a year, dance - they learn all kinds of dances here - and debate so confidently that they are invited to the European Youth Parliament. FIGURATIVE ART is brilliant here!

The music school is three floors high. Talented musicians from Millfield are accepted into the National Music Orchestra and enter CONSERVATORIES. And once a week everyone is clubbed, from jewellery making to car mechanics. The British Institute of Education piously believes only in the ALL-round development of the human being.