- About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools, and in 2024 was awarded Independent School of the Year for our contribution to social mobility. - Admissions
Approximately 1 in 10 pupils receive a bursary or scholarship. We are committed to ensuring an MCS education is open to the brightest pupils, no matter their personal circumstances.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools, and in 2024 was awarded Independent School of the Year for our contribution to social mobility.
- Senior School
28 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2024. - Sixth Form
Over 25% of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
- Supporting MCS
In 2023-24 MCS received over £448,000 in donated funds. 70% was spent on bursaries, 17% on partnership activities and 13% on pupil activities.
28 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2024.
In 2023-24 MCS received over £448,000 in donated funds. 70% was spent on bursaries, 17% on partnership activities and 13% on pupil activities.- About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools, and in 2024 was awarded Independent School of the Year for our contribution to social mobility.
- Admissions
Approximately 1 in 10 pupils receive a bursary or scholarship. We are committed to ensuring an MCS education is open to the brightest pupils, no matter their personal circumstances.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
- Senior School
28 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2024.
- Sixth Form
Over 25% of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
- Supporting MCS
In 2023-24 MCS received over £448,000 in donated funds. 70% was spent on bursaries, 17% on partnership activities and 13% on pupil activities.
On Thursday 17 March the Waynflete Office was delighted to welcome OWs and their guests to Westminster Abbey for a special evening reception.
Members of the Abbey’s Visitor Experience team took guests on a bespoke private tour taking in a number of monuments linking MCS to Westminster Abbey.
These included Sir William McKie’s grave and the bust of William Camden. McKie (1901-1984) was Informator Choristorum, Magdalen College 1938-1941 and Camden (1551-1623) writer and historian, was an MCS Chorister and later a student at Magdalen College. He was mentored by Thomas Cooper, Master of MCS.
There is even an MCS connection to the Grave of the Unknown Soldier which was the inspiration of Padre David Railton (1884-1955). Railton wrote to Herbert Ryle, Dean of Westminster in August 1920, suggesting a permanent memorial to the fallen of the Great War who had no known grave. King George V and the government, rather reluctantly at first, supported the idea and on 11 November 1920 Railton saw his dream become reality. Whilst at Keble Railton got to know OWs Noel and Christopher Chavasse and their family. He was later ordained and greatly influenced by Bishop Francis Chavasse, and moved by their family’s loss which played its part in his desire to mark those lost in the Great War.
After the tour the Master hosted a reception in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries which display over 300 objects from the Abbey’s collection and offer magnificent views down to the Abbey floor 16 metres below. MCS is the first organisation to use the Galleries for a reception which made a special evening even more notable.
