Elstree School is an English preparatory school for children aged 3–13 at Woolhampton House in Woolhampton, near Newbury, in the English county of Berkshire. The school is co-educational.

History

1848–1938 in Elstree, Hertfordshire

The school was founded in 1848 in Elstree, Hertfordshire, at Hill House on Elstree Hill, an 18th-century Grade II* listed building. Today, the building is a Bupa care centre.

Since 1938 in Woolhampton, Berkshire

In 1938 or 1939 at the start of the Second World War (sources differ), staff and 70 boys moved to Woolhampton House in Berkshire which, at the war's end, became Elstree's permanent home, owned and run by the Sanderson family until 1961 when Elstree School was incorporated. Ian Sanderson remained headmaster until 1969 when Terrence McMullen became headmaster.

The building

Woolhampton House is a 17th-century Grade II* listed building.

Notable former pupils

Notable teachers

Sports