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Once very much a local boarding school with majority of families from Midlands, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Lancashire but reach now stretches way further as many parents consider it ‘a more traditional and academic Millfield’ More SME owners than landed gentry and increasingly lawyers and bankers from the south-east Seventeen per cent international contingent, again more widely dispersed than in the past when Hong Kong and China dominated Parents love the formalities, heritage and traditions of Repton but say, ‘It’s not posh’ Parents of day pupils often buy or rent houses in or very near Repton village itself Students are full of life they have to be to cope with the daily 9pm finish and seven-day week; they converse easily with strangers, the younger ones inevitably more shy

Range of scholarships and exhibitions – some titular only, some worth up to 20 per cent off fees. Fees broadly in line with similar schools.

Repton has long been a safe bet academically but equally it is not a school to stand still, with new leadership tweaking and brushing up from all angles, perhaps especially in sport. A (relatively) more grounded offering than some of its flashier competitors, and a great fit for the allrounder.