Governing Body

Governing Body Dukes Education

Dukes Education was founded in February 2015. It is a privately owned family of outstanding mainstream independent nurseries, schools and colleges, as well as a provider of summer schools and a leading university application consultancy.

Our schools are all different, yet they’re united in offering outstanding teaching and learning, providing the strongest foundations for young people to help them lead meaningful and fulfilling lives. We have twelve nurseries, nine preparatory schools, four secondary schools and three boarding and day colleges, supporting over 6000 pupils with over 1600 staff, including a strong team of educationalists and administrative staff supporting our schools.

Why Dukes?

  • We are genuinely passionate about developing young people. We get them involved and learn from what they say to help us define how to continue to innovate;
  • We think long term. All of our decision making is shaped by a goal to build schools that are not just excelling now but are set up for an extraordinary future;
  • We operate a decentralised structure, enabling our teams to be autonomous, this hugely empowers the Head and staff. We bring together schools that are diverse but all represent outstanding examples of teaching and learning. We pride ourselves on retaining the distinctive culture of each school whilst providing an outstanding level of support;
  • We heavily invest in staff training and development through programmes created by our own Dukes team – probably more than any group I know. In addition, we provide plenty of opportunities for peer group support.