Oakridge Prep  ages 4 to 13

Fifty years on the same lawn

Oakridge Preparatory opened in 1974 with eleven children and one teacher. There are three hundred and ten of them now, and the lawn is the same lawn. businesses of all sizes.
Where our leavers go next
Oakridge Prep  ages 4 to 13

What the school is for

Oakridge opened in 1974 in a house and four acres. It is now three hundred and ten children on twenty-two, and the founding idea has not moved.
Know the child
Sixteen to a class is not a marketing number. It is the point at which a teacher can still tell you what every child did on Tuesday.
Keep the week wide
Latin, an instrument, two afternoons of sport and a play a year. A child who is only good at exams has been short-changed.
Say it straight
Reports that say what is actually happening, and senior school advice that is about your child rather than about our list.
Oakridge Prep  ages 4 to 13

Who teaches here

Thirty-one teachers for three hundred and ten children. Eleven of them have been here more than a decade, which is the number we are proudest of.
Dr Helen Marsh
Head
James Rennick
Deputy Head, Academic
Priya Sandhu
Head of Pre-Prep
Daniel Okonjo
Director of Music and Sport
Rachel Tiernan
Head of Lower Prep
Yuki Hammond
Registrar
Oakridge Prep  ages 4 to 13

Where our leavers go next

Oakridge pupils move on to selective day and boarding schools across the county. Twenty-two awards in the last three years.
Oakridge Prep  ages 4 to 13

Come and see the school

Open mornings run in October, February and May. Bring your child: they spend the morning in a class while you walk round with the head.