Ewell Castle School


Ewell Castle School is a 3–18 mixed, independent day school and sixth form in Ewell, Epsom, Surrey, England. It was founded in 1926 by Herbert Budgell as a boarding school and became fully mixed in September 2015.. It consists of the Main House, Glyn House and Chessington Lodge.
The school was last inspected in 2015.

Houses

The school has three Houses: Castlemaine, Raleigh and Essex. When they start at the school, pupils are assigned to a house, and they remain in it throughout their school career. If a sibling of an Ewellian pupil were to join the school, they would be assigned to the same house.

Societies

The clubs range from Design, Sciences, Politics and Debating to Sports and recreation. In late 2008 a team from the school won first prize in the Epsom, Ewell and Banstead Schools’ Enterprise Challenge 2008.

Sports

The School has rugby, tennis and cricket pitches. There are also cricket nets and athletics facilities. The school has a multi-purpose Sports Hall complex.
Sporting fixtures in a wide range of sports are played against other independent schools such as Charterhouse, City of London Freemen's School, Halliford School, St Paul's, King's College School, Epsom College and Reigate Grammar School.

Music and drama

Music

The newest building in the school is the music pavilion opened by Sampha, a notable alumnus of the school, in 2017. The senior school previously used the Junior School music department on the lower floor of Glyn House but their music department is now easily accessible on the grounds of all of their other buildings. The music pavilion is also devoted to the school's many bands, choirs and solo artists.
The Fitznells School of Music, founded by Vivienne Price in 1959 and initially based at Fitznells Manor, was relocated to Ewell Castle School in 1988.

Drama

There are annual Drama productions and this year some of the pupils embarked on LAMDA exams. In addition, Ewell Castle performed 'Oliver' at the Epsom Playhouse Theatre in 2016.

Controversy

The former Deputy Head of the Ewell Castle Preparatory school, Andy Robson, was jailed for two years after filming children getting undressed in changing rooms. Robson took the indecent images between March 2010 and February 2017.

Notable alumni