Choosing a new school is a different decision from choosing an established one. There are no exam results to read and no alumni to ask. What you can do instead is check the things that will decide your child's experience, and a new school should make every one of them easy to check.
What you can verify before you commit
The campus. Is it built, and can you walk all of it? At Elyton, every facility we list is on the tour route: the 400m all-weather track, the swimming pool, the library, the smart classrooms and the hall with a stage.
The teachers. Can you meet the people who will actually teach your child? At Elyton, the teachers you meet on a tour are the teachers you get, and you can ask where they have taught and what they believe about learning.
The fees, in writing. A school confident in its offer publishes its fees. Ours are on the fees page, with what tuition includes and what it doesn't.
The commitments. Ask what the school promises and whether it will be held to it. Ours include a hard ceiling of twenty-five pupils per class, from the first day.
What founding families get
- The smallest classes the school will ever run, and the most attention per child.
- The whole campus, used by one small cohort.
- A voice in the traditions. Founding families and pupils decide things later families inherit, starting with the house names.
- Firsts. The first production, the first sports day, the first records on the track.
The questions to ask any new school
- What is the maximum class size, and is it a ceiling or an average?
- Can I meet my child's actual teacher?
- Is everything on the website on the tour route today?
- Are the fees published, and what do they include?
- Which year groups open now, and how will the school grow?
See it for yourself
Book a private weekday tour, walk the campus, meet the team and ask anything. A school worth choosing can survive hard questions.
