Stephen Perse Foundation

the stephen perse foundation is a group of six independent schools in cambridge, madingley and saffron walden. founded in 1881 we have always been in the forefront of education developments, providing the best opportunities for our students. you may know us as the school that inspired st trinian’s. we're not quite like that now, but our historical roots are important to our current developments. we already had a co-educational preprep and sixth form and are developing a diamond model of schooling that has enabled boys to join our junior school from september 2014 and our senior school in 2017. in 2013 we merged with the highly successful dame bradbury’s prep school and nursery in saffron walden. our vision includes equipping our students to face the unknown as well as the known challenges of the future. we achieve exceptional examination results but our focus is never the exam. we base our approach to education around the needs of the individual – put simply, we always start with the