The School is located in leafy Grange Road, a short walk from the center of Cambridge and the College, at the heart of which sits the Chapel, home to the internationally renowned College Chapel Choir. The School site has undergone significant rebuilding or redevelopment in the last few years to ensure the facilities, layout, and fabric of the buildings fully support the delivery of the School’s ethos.
The School occupies two sites, Byron House and Senior House, some 200 yards apart, across Grange Road from the extensive playing fields owned by and shared with St John’s College. At Byron House, the Junior Department houses about 120 pupils (about 40 per year in two co-educational classes) aged 4-6 and is also home to about 120 pupils (in three co-educational classes per year) in the 7-8 age range. The Senior House site houses boys and girls aged 9 - 13 (approximately 230 pupils in all).
Byron House provides outstanding facilities for 4-9-year-olds, including specialist Music, Art/DT, Computing facilities, a Junior Library, Drama/Assembly Room, a Hall/Stage/Dining Room/Gymnasium, Individual and Small Group Teaching rooms. The Forest Garden has at its center a circular teaching space and the Kindergarten enjoys Forest School Fridays in this specially designed spacious outdoor area.
The Senior House site itself has been completely redeveloped in recent years with bespoke classrooms, an outstanding library, a DT and computer control and graphics facility, two Science labs, a Drama studio, Music facilities, a multi-sports court, changing areas, and excellent staff facilities. It also contains other specialist facilities such as the swimming pool, Music School, Chapel, theatre and gymnasium.
A self-contained Boarding House is a short walk away from Senior House and accommodates up to 40 boys and girls, twenty of whom are the Choristers.
- A St John’s education is centered around fostering the aptitudes and nurturing the growth of each child.
- We believe that emotional and social well-being, self-awareness, and confidence are inextricably linked with academic progress.
- We encourage children to become independent, creative, and critical learners and to become their best selves in the fullest sense.
- We aim to instill a lifelong love of learning through a rich and broad curriculum.
- We believe that respect for children, faith in children, and an ability to see the world through their eyes should inform our teaching and our care.
- We aim for the children at St John’s to have a generosity of spirit and compassion in a global society and to embody the values of love, honesty, kindness, respect, service, and trust.
- We aim to provide premises which allow us to meet our aims and are fit for the very best in 21st-century education.
- In all that we do, we aim to work closely with parents, guardians, and the children themselves.
