Kingham Hill School, a co-educational senior day and boarding school in Kingham, Oxfordshire, will join the Dean Close Foundation in July.

Kingham Hill was founded in 1886 by the Christian philanthropist, educationalist and politician, Charles Edward Baring Young, and now educates around 325 boys and girls aged from 11 to 18, on a 105-acre rural site. The school has a Christian ethos.

In a release the Dean Close Foundation stated: “The similarities in our values and educational approach are the basis for a partnership which will allow our two senior schools to maintain their distinctiveness but to collaborate where it will benefit pupils and staff, as we have done with others schools which have joined the Foundation over the last decade. Our partnership also brings once again the reassurance that all our schools and nurseries have a strong and sustainable financial base on which to develop further.”

From July, the Dean Close Foundation will comprise six co-educational schools and seven nurseries educating approximately 1,800 children across Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and South Wales.