Stover School is a leading independent co-educational day and boarding school for pupils aged 3 – 18. It is set in 64 acres of beautiful and historical grounds in the heart of Devon’s glorious countryside between the foothills of Dartmoor and the South West Coastline

Stover School is a unique and very special place; a school which delivers cutting edge education while retaining a healthy focus on traditional Christian morals, values and manners. Happy children are at the very centre of our ethos, reflecting our robust system of pastoral care. Children who feel safe, valued, respected and who trust those around them are free to focus on learning to their maximum potential. Our stunning rural setting allows children to enjoy being children and is integral to enhancing this ethos.

The co-educational, non-selective environment we provide, best models “real life”, allowing the pupils to build the inter-personal skills, empathy, independence and fortitude required to be successful in the wider world.

In this school, the family atmosphere ensures that every child is known and understood by the staff and their fellow pupils, as an individual who has something to offer the school community and world at large. This individual approach is reflected in our absolute focus on adding value to the academic potential of each student in an effort to maximise their individual educational and examination outputs, regardless of their ability.

We firmly believe that success breeds success and our extensive additional curriculum and activities programme provides opportunities for all of our children to explore a range of interests and enjoy positive outcomes, leading to a burgeoning self-confidence that then reaps rewards and enhances progress in all areas of the academic and additional curriculum.

At Stover School we take full advantage of our single campus for pupils from 3 to 18 years of age. The Prep and Senior stages are fully integrated, with a number of staff working across both phases. We also provide a number of structured roles and responsibilities which allow the older pupils to work with the younger ages. This enhances the Stover family, gives the older pupils the responsibility they need to grow and enables the younger pupils to aspire to these role models.

The latest Inspection team firmly endorsed this, giving us a set of judgements that no other independent school in the area can rival. However, we are not going to rest on our laurels. We have recently launched a Research Based Learning Curriculum across the entire school, our Sixth Form are enjoying a change of location, in a fully refurbished Sixth Form Centre, all of our pupils are now benefiting from the “bring your own” ICT infrastructure that best model ICT usage in the work-place and the first vegetable beds and animals have arrive onto the site to kick start our Stover School Farm.

Stover School provides education which nurtures, celebrates, challenges and inspires each pupil. Our holistic approach combines a progressive research based curriculum, with a resilient moral code based on sound family and Christian principles. We prepare confident and independent young people to adapt and succeed in an ever changing world.