Firm foundations in education for the next century’s future leaders

Specialist preparatory schools for children aged 3-13, worldwide

We nurture confident, creative children, ready to thrive anywhere.

Our purpose is to develop schools that help children to build strong intellectual foundations: securing places at the world’s leading senior schools and enabling them to study and live across cultures.

Ashvale Schools is a global education company that launches, operates and grows specialist private preparatory schools for younger children aged 3-13 around the world

We imagine a world where every child has the foundation to access the best education whilst remaining creative, curious and culturally aware.

You will be empowered, with our expert support, to establish intimate, community-focused private preparatory schools for children aged 3-11 or 3-13, tailored to the needs of modern professional families, that blend traditional academic excellence with rich creative and character education.

An Ashvale education opens doors to leading senior schools around the world. Pupils are equipped with value-added academic scores as well as the strength of character, empathy and cultural fluency that makes them stand out in a competitive educational landscape.

  • Human-centred learning

    Ashvale Schools’ education builds character, empathy, and cultural fluency. Helping children become creative, thoughtful citizens of the world, as well as academic performers.

  • Intellectual joy

    Academically ambitious but never joyless. Curriculum designed to spark curiosity, debate, and creative expression, that prepares children to succeed in world-leading senior schools.

  • Smaller, better schools

    Right-sized schools, tailored to modern professional families’ needs and anchored in communities, where every child is known, with small classes, deep teacher-pupil relationships and strong parent trust.

  • Global, modern Britishness

    Grounded in British heritage and prep school values, refreshed for a global future. Quietly confident, never stuffy or clichéd.

Where our children go next

Ashvale’s founding team have an exceptional track record in supporting pupils to gain places at more than 70 world-leading day and boarding schools

Our stories

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.