Radley College

Radley College, formally St Peter's College, Radley or the College of St Peter at Radley, is an English public school providing boarding education for boys aged 13–18, near the village of Radley, in Oxfordshire, in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1847. The school covers 800 acres (320 hectares) including playing fields, a golf course, a lake, and farmland. Before the counties of England were re-organised, the school was in Berkshire. Radley is one of three public schools in the UK which have retained both the boys-only, boarding-only tradition, the others being Harrow School and Eton College. Formerly this group included Sherborne School which now offers day places and Winchester College, which offers day places in the Sixth Form and is intended to transition to co-educational status in September 2026. Of the seven public schools addressed by the Public Schools Act 1868 four have since become co-educational: Rugby School (1976), Charterhouse School (1971), Westminster School (1973), and Shrewsbury School (2014). For the academic year 2022/23, Radley charged boarders up to £14,850 per term, or £44,550 per annum. Based in an enclosed setting of 800 acres outside Oxford, Radley College's facilities include a golf course (and simulator), an indoor rowing tank, design engineering workshops, an art gallery, the Countryside Centre, the Radley Zoo and an Observatory. A new Music School will open in 2026. Radley College was named Best Public School in the 2024 Tatler School Awards. In May 2025, Radley College announced one of the largest mergers in the independent charitable schools industry with Prep Schools Trust (PST). The merger formally took effect in September 2025, and saw funds, staff and ownership of the prep schools within PST transfer to the Charity of St Peter's College, Radley.