- Malvern St James School was founded in 1893 as Malvern Girls’ School and renamed following its merger with St James’s School in 2006. In 2025, it began its transition to become coeducational, admitting boys for the first time, and has fewer than 200 children on roll, the majority of whom are day pupils.
- Full, weekly and flexi-boarding options are available, as well as occasional boarding on an ad-hoc basis.
- The pastoral care team includes Enzo the dog, and more than 30 members of staff are trained as youth mental health first aiders.
- Sibling discounts apply as do discounts for pupils whose mother or grandmothers were old girls, as well as families serving in the armed forces. Means-tested bursaries are granted at the head teacher’s discretion and can cover up to 40 per cent of the fees.
- Old girls of the schools that came together to former Malvern St James include the novelist Barbara Cartland, the former leader of the Green Party Caroline Lucas and the author Imogen Edwards-Jones.
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