Kindergarten - Year 6
Junior School
Children learn to read early and properly, and number bonds before calculators. They also learn the habit of finishing what they start. Classes are eighteen.
The Prospectus
Independent K-12 · Founded 1923
An education measured in decades, not terms.
Wrenfield College is an independent K-12 school of six hundred and forty students. We are rigorous about the work and unhurried about childhood, and we print the fees in full. This page is our prospectus. The visit is the proof.
Contents
Learning
Rigour is not doing more. It is going deeper, and staying longer with what is hard. From kindergarten to the final examinations, the work is sequenced so that nothing rests on sand.
Years 7 - 9
Middle School
The years the questions get harder and the child decides whether school is theirs. Each student takes a language and a science, and an instrument or a stage.
Years 10 - 12
Senior School
Depth over breadth, examined properly. Subject mentors, a past-paper season run sanely, and a considered next step - not a default one.
The prize list
Results, printed plainly
Numbers a parent can check, not adjectives. The full tables - grades, destinations and cohort sizes - are printed in the Learning chapter.
- 92%
- of examined grades at A or B in the latest cycle
- 44
- university offers made to our 38 leavers
- 61
- societies, ensembles and teams that meet weekly
- 9:1
- students to every teacher, Kindergarten to Year 12
“A school that teaches children to think, not merely to test.”
The Harrington Guide to Independent Schools, 2025 edition
Life
A school day should have weather in it, from the singing at assembly and the mud on boots to an orchestra tuning somewhere down the corridor. The timetable protects all of it.
Houses run the competitions and the service roster, and most of the friendships start there too. Wrenfield has six of them. Sport is Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, and music and drama have the evenings. Saturday is for fixtures and long breakfasts.
People
Ask our current parents what they notice first. They will tell you the students are at ease with themselves - and that the staff know every child by name and by story.
“I believe a school should be judged on its graduates at thirty, not its marketing at enrolment. We teach for the long run: able and good, in that order of difficulty.”
Dr Priya Ashworth
MA (Oxon) - Principal since 2018
Meet the Head on a tourAdmissions
The process is printed and the dates are fixed, and the fees are the figures on the page. Most places are offered in the first round. Late applications take the seats that remain.
Fees run $18,900 to $27,800 a year, printed in full with everything they include - books, devices, excursions and exam fees. You should not have to ask.
Upcoming open mornings
Junior School
Saturday 14 March
Doors at 9:00 am · led by the Principal
Middle & Senior
Saturday 2 May
Doors at 9:00 am · led by the Principal
All stages
Friday 12 June
Doors at 8:30 am · led by the Principal
The pupils you meet on a tour are the proof. Come and inspect the claim.
Admissions for next year close early.
First-round applications are due 30 April, and most places are offered from that round. Book a morning, meet the Head, and see the work on the desks.
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