Ages 
An old-fashioned, but thoroughly modern, prep school, providing a super-solid grounding in the fundamentals alongside a rich broader curriculum. As one parent summarised: ‘Children are well cared for and taught properly; it’s exemplary’.
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Overview & data
- Pupil numbers
- 86 ·
- Religion
- None
- Fees
- £27,828 pa
- Local authority
- London Borough of Camden
- School ownership
- Academy School (Hampstead) LLP
Headteacher
Joint principals
Mr G Evans
Since 1997, Garth Evans BA and Chloe Sandars LRAM, Prof Cert FTCL (joint principals). They founded the school in 1997. Mrs Sandars attended Oxford High School for Girls before studying piano at the Royal Academy of Music and postgraduate training at
Entrance
The Academy starts in year 2 (when pupils can read) and new entrants join at every point thereafter. Applicants are assessed rather than tested. With only 90 spots on offer, however, the school can afford to choose ‘nice pupils, who we think we can
Exit
To an unusually wide range of schools, with regular scholarships (two in 2025). The majority get their first choice. Most popular choices in 2025 were Westminster, followed by Wetherby Senior School, Mill Hill, JCoSS, Dulwich College, Channing,
Latest results
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Teaching & learning
Learning support & SEN
Mobile phone policy
A clear mobile phone policy is a really important part of modern schooling. This school has provided us with their policy.
Mobile phone policy
Provided by the school and not part of our review Pupils shall never use their mobile phones during the school day. Mobile phones are solely to contact the pupil’s parents or those looking after them before and after the school day. Our pupils who bring a mobile phone into school hand it into the office at the beginning of the day. Computers of pupils may not be used to communicate in any way with friends, other family members or third parties whilst the pupil is on the school premises. Computers are not to be used to take, disseminate or receive photographs or to watch and/or listen to films or music. No gameboys or other forms of electronic devices are to be brought into the school.
Pupils
Money matters
No delineated bursary funding, but hardship is supported ‘as much as we can’.
- Fee information
- £27,828 pa
Our view
Lessons start at 8am – no dillydallying with registration or assembly. ‘It’s the best time to be wide awake,’ says Mrs Sandars. (Parents approve the early start: ‘It means we can get to work on time.’)
What the Academy does better than anything is
The last word
An old-fashioned, but thoroughly modern, prep school, providing a super-solid grounding in the fundamentals alongside a rich broader curriculum. As one parent summarised: ‘Children are well cared for and taught properly; it’s exemplary’.
