- 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.
- 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.
Magdalen College School has won the prestigious The Perse Coding Team Challenge. Fifth Form pupils Isaac E and Sam T and Lower Fourth pupil Luke C beat out stiff competition from St Paul’s and The Perse with an astonishing 120/120 – the first time a full score has been achieved in the competition’s history.
The Challenge pits UK and international secondary school teams of students in Years 7 to 11 against one other in a timed automated contest across two rounds, each of which can be sat at any point in a nominated working fortnight. Students submit short code solutions to a range of challenges which increase in difficulty across the two rounds and during a timed contest.
The Challenge is sponsored by Dr David Braben OBE FREng, a game developer, game designer, founder and CEO of Frontier Developments plc and co-creator of the Elite series space trading computer games first published in 1984. He is also a co-founder of and works as a trustee for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. David has been called “one of the most influential computer game programmers of all time” (The Telegraph, 2014), based on his early game development with the Elite series.
We are very proud of our boys’ achievement and delighted to report that the MCS name has been inscribed on the Braben Cup, which is kept on site at The Perse School.
