HIGHCLARE SCHOOL

1. HIGHCLARE SCHOOL 1997-05-02 → present
2. HIGHCLARE SCHOOL LIMITED 1972-10-02 → 1997-05-02

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Malcolm Piper & Company Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“Having reviewed the cash position, the Governors consider that the Group has adequate resources to continue its current operations and pursue its Long Term Strategy, as they believe it has the ability to meet its debts as they fall due. Accordingly, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the annual report and accounts.”

Group structure

1. HIGHCLARE SCHOOL · parent
   1. Highclare Investments Limited 100% · England · property ownership and management (in process of being struck off)
   2. Highclare Limited 100% · England · property ownership and management (dissolved 4 November 2025)

Significant events

• “A simplification of the group structure was legally and formally completed on 3 October 2024, which transferred all assets of the subsidiary undertakings to the School. As the subsidiary undertakings no longer served any purpose, applications to strike the off were submitted to Companies House.”
• “Suzanne Cassell became the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) for the School in September 2024 and in January 2025, Joanna Griffiths took up her new role as Head of Highclare Preparatory School.”
• “The School entered both the ISA Awards and the Independent Schools of the Year Awards in Summer Term 2025, being shortlisted as a finalist in the category for Marketing Communication for Independent Schools of the Year Awards.”
• “The School began a new subscription to 'The Wellbeing Hub' in September 2024 an online support platform for pupils, parents, schools and teachers.”
• “The School is in the process of achieving an externally accredited Wellbeing Award. We are also developing our School brand, as recognised recently in the Independent School of the Year Awards, around "The Highclare Difference" and investing in resources to support this, e.g. introduction of the Highclare Diploma at Highclare Senior School.”
• “The sites currently occupied by Abbey Fire Ltd and the former Sign Services at the front of the Senior School Site on Birmingham Road are scheduled for demolition in late summer 2026 so that the land can be brought into the Highclare Senior School campus.”
• “On 4 November 2025 the application to strike off Highclare Limited was granted and the company was dissolve. The application to strike off Highclare Investments Limited is still in progress.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -1.1%

  £7,290,518 → £7,211,418

• Cash

  -18.7%

  £2,927,280 → £2,380,746

• Net assets

  -1.7%

  £5,045,417 → £4,960,221

• Employees

  +3.9%

  153 → 159

• Operating profit

  -128.6%

  £215,103 → -£61,539

• Profit before tax

  -147.9%

  £177,698 → -£85,196

• Wages

  +1.8%

  £4,371,883 → £4,452,535

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers