Our Strategic Vision

Our goal is to provide opportunities for a greater number of talented and deserving boys to enjoy the benefits of a Radley education.

With numbers at their highest in our history, there is healthy demand from talented boys at all levels of entry. Applications for 13+ entry are up 8% year on year, alongside a sizeable increase in registrations for Sixth Form, which are up by more than a quarter.

The launch of the Keys Award, a rebrand of our funded places programme, has attracted significant interest. Applications this year rose by nearly a quarter. For the academic year 2025/26, 147 boys are in receipt of funding. 90 of those boys are on 50% plus bursaries with  22 boys on fully funded places. £4.3m has been spent, equivalent to more than 11% of fee income. The newly introduced Innovation Scholarship has proven very popular with five boys now in receipt of an award.

Our goal is to ensure we provide, and are known for providing, world class teaching in world class facilities.

The expansion and refurbishment of the Music School, the final project associated with the College’s expansion, was completed in early 2026. We continue to enhance the estate with smaller scale improvements to include a new climbing wall, conversion of the Kennington Road barn into a cookery school and an extension to the Health Centre.

Our goal is give our boys the understanding, skills and global awareness to contribute positively to a changing world.

We are acutely conscious of the importance of preparing boys for the future beyond Radley and see that as being at the heart of the next strategic plan. It is all too easy, however, to presume that what is new and exciting requires us to jettison what has served us well in the past. We continue to believe in a traditional liberal arts education; that strong values and character formation must be the most important thing and that there is no false dichotomy (indeed often a synergy) between that approach to learning and preparation for the workplace and the world.

In a world so often defined by and presented by ‘crisis’, we continue to be positive and optimistic as we educate young men to embrace the opportunities the world offers. We do so in a community confident of what it stands for, underpinned by our Christian foundation and values. Most importantly, our boys are happy; nothing matters more.

Our goal is to enact positive change locally and nationally; for the remarkable organisations we work with and in our boys.

Partnership is a core theme in life at Radley. Our boys are making a difference to the local community in what they do and, equally importantly, are being exposed to experiences that in turn make them better people. It is particularly encouraging that Socials have developed their own initiatives in local primary schools, that boys seek to continue involvement beyond their Fifth Form programme, and that there are examples of boys leading initiatives to establish partnership activity.