- At 400 years old, this selective coeducational school still occupies its original site on the street in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein and the poet TS Eliot once lived. The modern campus includes a new sports hall, opened in 2021.
- Borlasians are encouraged to be busy and to seize opportunities both inside and outside of the classroom. The school is a hub for modern foreign languages, offering French, German and Spanish to A-level, and Mandarin Chinese to GCSE level.
- The school’s hockey and rowing programmes have a national reputation.
- Sixth-formers step away from the books on Wednesday afternoons to participate in sport, fitness or wellbeing activities, such as yoga, Pilates, golf or horse riding.
- The arts are central to the curriculum. Art, drama, dance and music are offered to A-level, along with a BTec in production arts.
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