St Swithun’s School - School for Girls, Winchester, Hampshire

St Swithun’s School, Winchester

School in Winchester, England

Set on an impressive and attractive campus of over 45 acres overlooking open countryside in Hampshire, St Swithun's College, St Swithun’s School, is just a 50-minute train ride from central London.

With day, weekly boarding and full boarding options for 510 girls aged 11-18, the school provides excellent teaching, sports and recreational facilities. For girls aged 4-11 with a co-ed nursery, there is an adjacent Prep School.

For academic rigour and achievement, St Swithun’s School's has a long-standing reputation, but this is just a part of what the school offers. The school is described as 'properly academic' by Jane Gandee, headmistress, requiring girls to give their full attention to classwork and homework before taking advantage of the wide range of co-curricular activities on offer.

With its 214 full and weekly boarders, the senior school has six boarding houses, with separate homes for those in their first year and those in the upper sixth. The buildings at the school are new and well designed. There is a magnificent performing arts centre with a 600-seat auditorium, a music school, an art and technology block, as well as regular academic classrooms and science laboratories.