Five Star Rating within Fortune's World Leading Boarding Schools of 2023
Bedford School is proud to be named among Fortune’s ‘World’s Leading Boarding Schools’ for 2023.
The school was awarded five stars, placing us not just in the top 250 schools covered by the report, but in the global top 100 making us one of just six boys’ boarding schools in the world to have achieved such a rating.
Independent Boys' School of The Year
Bedford School was named Independent Boys’ School of the Year in 2021 for "its holistic school experience, tailored to the specific needs of the all-boys community so that they be good men.”
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TES Boarding School of the Year - Shortlisted
Bedford School was shortlisted for Boarding School of the Year in the TES Schools Awards 2022. The award recoginises excellence in boarding, in particular in innovation, imagination and efforts to develop children in ways that go beyond academic achievement and the league tables.
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- Top 250 UK School (Talk Education)
- Finalist – Independent Boys’ School of the Year (Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2023)
- Highly commended – Happiest Boarding School Award 2023 (Muddy Stilettos)
- Five Star Rating within Fortune’s World’s Leading Boarding Schools of 2023
- Shortlisted – Independent Prep School of the Year (Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2022)
- Shortlisted – Boarding School of the Year, Boys’ School of the Year (Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2022)
- Shortlisted – Student Careers Programme (Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2022)
- Finalist – Rising Star of the Year (Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2022)
- Shortlisted – Independent Senior School of the Year (Times Educational Supplement)
- Shortlisted – Boarding School of the Year 2022 (Times Educational Supplement)
- Finalist – Happiest Boarding School Award 2022 (Muddy Stilettos)
- Finalist – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs 2022 (Muddy Stilettos)
- Winner – Independent Boys’ School of the Year (Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2021)
- Shortlisted – Independent Prep School of the Year (Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2021)
- Commended – COVID Response Award (Education Business Awards, 2021)
- Listed as a contender for ‘Great for Pupil Ideas’ (The Week Independent Schools Guide, Autumn/Winter 2021)
- Top 100 senior school and top 50 prep school for cricket (Cricketer Schools Guide 2021, 2022 and 2023)
- Finalist – Boarding Research Award (Boarding Schools Association, 2021)
- Winner – Rising Star of the Year (Independent Schools of the Year Awards 2020)
- Listed within Best of the Best as ‘Great for Sport’ (The Week Independent Schools Guide, Autumn/Winter 2020)
