Basic Information & Location
Wycombe Abbey offers a modern approach to boarding in the wonderful surroundings of 170 acres of parkland. The School is easily accessible from the M40 (J4) and is 15 minutes from the M25 (J16).
Academic Development
Ranked as the UK’s top boarding school (Sunday Times, Parent Power), Wycombe Abbey is a world-class girls’ school which strives to provide high academic achievement with a holistic and rewarding educational experience. Results are consistently impressive: 80% A*-A at A Level and 97.5% A*-A at GCSE in 2018/19. The school’s leavers go on to study subjects as diverse as Architecture, Aeroutics, Neuroscience and Linguistics at Oxbridge and Russell Group universities, while Medicine, Law and Science/Engineering courses remain among the most popular. An increasing number of girls are gaining places at the best colleges in the US including Harvard, Duke and Yale.
Curiosity, innovation and academic risk-taking are encouraged and every pupil is given the opportunity to develop her passions be those in art, music, sport, drama, debating or even bee keeping!
Pastoral Care & Boarding
The next ten years will see the renewal of all the school’s boarding accommodation, the refurbishment of the main Abbey Building and a new Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Centre. This process began with the building of two new boarding houses which opened recently.
At the heart of the School’s success is a total commitment to the development of good, caring human beings through proactive and personalised pastoral care.
