Casterton, Sedbergh Preparatory School
11+ Admissions Guide 2026

Casterton, Sedbergh Preparatory School is a co-educational day and boarding school set in the village of Casterton in the Lune Valley. The school came into being in September 2013 following the merger of Sedbergh School and Casterton School, and is based in the original Casterton building. It is overseen by the whole school's governing body and has three boarding houses. The school's mission is to develop happy, confident children with a can-do attitude, independent yet always with a sense of team before self. Through careful and sensitive teaching, it aims to foster a spirit of adventure, both inside and outside the classroom. The core values known as the Ways of the Wolf — ambition, collaboration, courage, creativity, kindness, and responsibility — shape behaviour throughout the school, and a keen sense of community and heritage is shared among boarders and day pupils alike. Pupils come from a range of professional, entrepreneurial, and farming backgrounds, mostly living within a 45 to 90-minute radius of the school. The school supports pupils with a variety of needs, including those with special educational needs and/or disabilities, those for whom English is an additional language, and those identified as the most able, with the curriculum and extra-curricular activities adapted accordingly.

Mobile phones not permitted during school day. Day pupils leave phones at main office. Boarders' phones kept in boarding house offices during day, returned after activities in evening