Moulsford Prep School brings forward move towards full co-education to 2025
Moulsford recently announced plans for its Prep School (ages 7 - 13) to begin welcoming girls into Year 3 in 2025. It had previously announced that this change would be taking place from September 2026 but has brought the move forward by a year.
- Prep School to take girls into Year 3 in September 2025
- Pre-Prep already co-educational from ages 3-7 (Pre-School to Year 2)
- By September 2030, the School will have girls in every year group
Since announcing the phased move to co-education, the School has been working hard behind the scenes in anticipation of girls joining the Prep School, focusing on many different areas including pastoral welfare, staff training, the academic curriculum, sport and extra-curricular activities, facilities and uniform. The School has made extremely good progress on all fronts and is ready to welcome the first cohort of girls in September 2025, a year earlier than planned.
The Pre-Prep (Pre-School to Year 2) has already successfully transitioned to co-education and by September 2030 (when girls currently in Year 2 will naturally progress into Year 8), the School will have girls in every year group.
Headmaster, Ben Beardmore-Gray commented, “Societal changes form the background to this decision, with families, including many Moulsford families, increasingly seeking to educate their children together and in a co-educational environment. This is reflected across the independent sector which is seeing a clear shift towards co-education and the recent political and economic changes are accelerating this direction of travel. Moulsford is currently in a position of strength, from which we are able to make well considered and long-term strategic decisions.
“The key distinguishing feature of a Moulsford education has always been the quality of our offering in all areas: academic, pastoral and extra-curricular and this will not change. As a co-educational school we will continue to provide an outstanding education for both boys and girls, preparing them for a wide range of leading day and boarding senior schools in the country. Our goal remains the happiness and fulfilment of every child, and the School’s values of Kindness, Courage and Curiosity will be key in supporting this aim.”
Moulsford is able to draw upon significant co-educational expertise. Prior to leading Moulsford, Headmaster Ben Beardmore-Gray and his wife Sarah jointly ran a very successful co-educational school for seven years. Similarly, Tiffany Squire (Deputy Head), Vicki Rae (Assistant Head - Pastoral), Caroline Scriven (Assistant Head - Academic) and Lee Chaffey (Director of Sport) have many years of co-educational leadership and teaching experience between them. Amy Gemmell, who joined Moulsford as Head of Pre-Prep in January 2025 has run a very successful co-educational Pre-Prep of 180 children at Hornsby House for the past six years. In addition, the great majority of Moulsford’s teachers have previously taught in co-educational schools.
June 2025