Affordable Boarding @ Barney

Welcome to Barnard Castle School, one of Britain’s most affordable, full boarding experiences with domestic boarding fees of £38,586-£41,311 per year, inclusive of VAT. 

The Barney boarding community is vibrant, with 197 bed spaces for girls and boys, c.75% of whom are British boarders aged 9 to 18. 

Fill out the form below to visit us on one of our Open Events or to request a personal tour. 

Barney (as our school is known) builds Character and Community across our 670-strong student population. We are academically ambitious for our students, with a broad academic intake. 

Barney Boarding offers newly refurbished, high-quality bedrooms; a warm, friendly and active boarding life, with a balance of pastoral strength and independence in a safe historic market town with easy access to rail links south to London and North to Edinburgh and beyond. 

Barney offers a broad array of opportunities with 100+ co-curricular activities, including the ever-popular Combined Cadet Force (CCF), an active school choir, seven bands and orchestras, a full drama programme and an array of clubs and societies for all ages. 

We have a world renowned rugby programme, having been home to leading English internationals including Rob Andrew and Rory Underwood, and more recent England U18 players in Joe Davies and Jacob Oliver. 

Under the new Headship of David Cresswell, Barnard Castle School is ‘dialling up’ the focus on academic ambition as it seeks to become one of the country’s highest performing schools for value-added education. 

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