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Merchant Taylors' Girls' and Merchant Taylors' Boys' to become one co-educational senior school
THE Governors of Merchant Taylors' are excited to announce that from:- September 2025 Merchant Taylors' Girls' will join Merchant Taylors' Boys' to create a single, co-educational Senior School. The newly created School will be known as:- Merchant Taylors' Schools and will be co-educational for all pupils aged:- 4 to 18, creating 1 School, 1 community, with 1 vision.
The single, co-educational Senior School will be based at the current Boys' School, which will be known as the Harrison Site, and led by Dr Michael Alderson. Mr Philip Marshall KC, Chair of the Board of Governors and an alumnus of the School said:- "This strategic development allows us to broaden and strengthen our academic provision while developing new opportunities and ensuring that access to those opportunities is the same for every pupil at Merchant Taylors'. Re-modelling our structure to become co-educational will provide greater operational and financial efficiency and will allow the School to help ensure that every pound generated in fee income from parents is invested to support the pupil experience. We have recently invested more than £1m in our Stanfield Prep School site, and over £2.5m in our Sports Grounds at Hall Rd, Uniting the Senior Schools in this way on 1 site will mean that we can invest further at the Harrison site, with over £5m currently being spent on refurbishing and modernising it and another £5m planned in the next 5 years, to meet, and indeed exceed, the requirements of all our community." To ensure a smooth and supportive process current and prospective parents, staff and pupils have been invited to participate in a community wide collaboration to guide and inform the process of change. The School has undertaken extensive planning and preparation to ensure the needs of both boys and girls are met. Improvements to facilities, adjustments to curriculum and co-curricular activities, as well as additional support for pupils and staff, have been carefully considered to ensure a seamless transition to co-education. Dr Alderson said:- "In undertaking this change, the Governors are determined to retain all that is good from both the Girls' and Boys' Schools. This will ensure that both the new co-educational Senior School and indeed Merchant Taylors' as a whole, become the best future facing version of itself, understanding and serving the needs of its community as it has done for the last 400 years."
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