- About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast. - 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 in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast.
- 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
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an endowment to fund bursaries for the future.
28 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2024.
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an - About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast.
- 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
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an endowment to fund bursaries for the future.
Friday 21 September 2018 marks the centenary of the death of Maurice Blagden (OW 1916), who was killed fighting on the Western Front during the last few months of the First World War.
Blagden was born in Kensington in 1899, and attended MCS from 1908 until 1916. He was a keen member of the debating society while at school, speaking and voting in favour of a motion calling for military conscription in Britain in 1912, and joined the School Cadet Corps in 1915.
He was accepted into Sandhurst in January 1917 after leaving school the previous summer, and was shipped to France in May 1918, just after his 19th birthday, as a Second Lieutenant in The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment).
On 20 September, Blagden’s battalion was given orders that they were to go ‘over the top’ the next morning, as part of the second great offensive of 1918, aiming to retake the villages of the Somme.
Under heavy shelling, and despite a wound to the arm that their commanding officer sustained during the fighting, Blagden’s platoon advanced until Blagden was shot and killed by a sniper, at around 8 a.m. The War was to end less than two months later.
Blagden was survived by his younger twin brothers Vincent and Herbert, who were still at MCS, and his recently widowed mother, Ada. He is buried in Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery in France.
For more information about Blagden, and all the MCS boys who died during the First World War, it is worth reading David Bebbington’s book Mister Brownrigg’s Boys. Copies can be ordered from the OW website.
