Queen's College, Taunton

Name

Queen's College, Taunton

Legal name

Queen's College Taunton

Website

https://queenscollege.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1843

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Independent Education (Day and Boarding School)

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (611110), Educational Services (61), All Other Schools and Instruction (61169)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Nonsectarian Independent Boarding Schools (EDAJABAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Early Childhood Development (ECD) & Pre-Primary Education (BPADAKAB), Full-Day Nursery Programs (EDACACAD)

Keywords

• Independent boarding school
• Co-educational day school
• A Level education
• Pre-prep nursery school
• Boarding school education

Headquarters

HQ city

Taunton

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Tuition fees (day and boarding): Recurring annual tuition charged to parents for day and boarding places from Nursery through Sixth Form. The school is fee-charging (its founding fees were 'nine guineas') and now educates around 700 pupils, with day pupils forming 60% of the population and girls making up half the school body.
2. Facilities and venue hire: Commercial hire of school facilities including sports facilities, residential hire, and a dedicated facility/venue-hire arm, available to clubs, societies and external groups in the wider Taunton area.
3. Commercial events and live entertainment: Ticketed events run on the campus such as the Queen's Hall Theatre live stand-up comedy series, with on-site box office sales and food/beverage concessions.
4. Holiday and activity camps (partner-operated): Holiday and academic camps run by partner operators such as Academic Camps on the school site, generating rental/capacity-based revenue for the school.
5. Charitable giving via the Queen's College Foundation: Voluntary donations to The Queen's College Foundation (a registered charity) supporting bursaries and capital projects, channelled through JustGiving and the development office. Not core operating revenue but disclosed to source_id.

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Queen's College, Taunton is a fee-charging independent day and boarding school providing a continuous co-educational educational pathway from Nursery (babies) through Sixth Form (ages 0-18) on a single Taunton campus, with day and boarding places, A Levels, the bespoke Queen's Diploma, international/EAL programmes (Pre A Level, Group Immersion), and dedicated pathways for Forces Families and Hinkley Point Families. The school is grounded in a Methodist Christian ethos, delivered through the High Performance Learning (HPL) World Class School framework, and complemented by extensive co-curricular provision in sport, performing arts and outdoor education.

Product overview

Queen's College, Taunton is an independent co-educational boarding and day school (founded 1843) rather than a software vendor; its "product portfolio" is its set of educational stages, programmes and partnerships. The core offering is a continuous Nursery → Pre-Prep → Prep → Senior → Sixth Form pathway, delivered on a single Taunton campus and grouped under one institutional brand. Layered onto that core are the international and English-as-an-Additional-Language programmes (Pre A Level, Group Immersion, EAL), the High Performance Learning framework (joined June 2023, World Class status awarded June 2025), the Futures and Wellbeing programmes, and co-curricular strands in sport, performing arts and outdoor education. On the digital side, the only separately branded "product" surfaced in the data is Queen's College Connected, the ToucanTech-powered alumni community portal at connected.queenscollege.org.uk, which sits alongside the main WordPress marketing site and is the only sub-product with a distinct platform/backend.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Nursery and Queen's Minis (Early Years) Early Years and Nursery education for babies through Pre-Prep age children, part of the co-educational 'babies to 18' pathway on the Trull Road campus, with wraparound care for working parents.
• Prep School (ages 1-11) Junior school division of Queen's College covering Pre-Prep and Prep (ages 1-11), delivering its own curriculum alongside performing arts, outdoor education, sport and co-curricular programmes.
• Senior School (ages 11-18) Senior school of Queen's College covering Key Stage 3 and GCSE, with publicly disclosed GCSE results each summer and co-curricular strands in sport, performing arts and outdoor education.
• Sixth Form (A Levels and Queen's Diploma) Post-16 provision offering A Levels alongside the bespoke Queen's Diploma, with a dedicated new Sixth Form Centre and progression to leading universities via the Futures Programme.
• Boarding (full, weekly and flexi) Residential boarding on the Trull Road campus (full, weekly and flexi) for around 40% of the school roll, including dedicated pathways for Forces Families and Hinkley Point project families.
• International Programmes (Pre A Level, Group Immersion, EAL) International and English-as-an-Additional-Language programmes (Pre A Level, Group Immersion, EAL) supporting overseas pupils into the UK curriculum and university preparation.
• Queen's College Connected (Alumni & Community Portal) Alumni and community engagement platform for Old Queenians, current and former parents, staff and friends, providing event registration, mentoring, networking, news, shop, donations and legacy-giving functionality (1843 Fund, Sibly Society).
• Facilities and Venue Hire Commercial hire of sports facilities, residential accommodation and the Queen's Hall Theatre to clubs, societies, partner camps and external groups in the wider Taunton area.
• The Queen's College Foundation (Charitable Giving) Voluntary donations to The Queen's College Foundation, a registered charity supporting bursaries and capital projects for Queen's College, channelled through the 1843 Fund and Sibly Society legacy giving.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% pass rates in over 20 A Level subjects in 2025, 'significantly outperforming national averages.'
• +5 more outcomes

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

19 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship performing arts partnership, flagship sports partnership, core sports partnership, flagship sports infrastructure, sponsor, community / careers partnership, secondary holiday-camp partner, foundational / governance, flagship educational framework, accreditation / industry membership, core technology vendor, infrastructure vendor and compliance vendor.

• Somerstageflagship performing arts partnershipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026Queen's College announced a new partnership with Somerstage, 'one of the South West's leading musical theatre and performing arts organisations,' as Somerstage expands into Taunton. Announced 15 June 2026.
• PaceLabflagship sports partnershipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 June 2026Queen's College renewed its partnership with PaceLab, 'one of the world's leading fast bowling development programmes,' as the South West host venue for the summer 2026 fast-bowling performance camp. Announced 3 June 2026.
• Exeter City Community Trustcore sports partnershipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 May 2026Queen's College began a new partnership with Exeter City Community Trust in the summer term 2026, introducing additional football coaching for Prep School pupils with a planned extension thereafter. Announced 6 May 2026.
• HiTZ Cricketflagship sports infrastructureStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 April 2026Queen's College Taunton announced a new partnership with HiTZ Cricket, bringing a 'next generation indoor cricket training facility' to the school site in early 2027. Announced 24 April 2026.
• Smash Padelflagship sports infrastructureStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 July 2025Queen's College partnered with Smash Padel to deliver six state-of-the-art panoramic covered padel courts on its campus. Full planning permission was granted in October 2025 and construction was underway as of February 2026. Initial partnership announced 11 July 2025.
• Clark Shaw AssociatessponsorGTM or Marketing Partner · 24 October 2024Clark Shaw Associates was announced as the 2024/25 shirt sponsor for Queen's College First XI Football team. Announced 24 October 2024.
• Aurora Foxes (SEN College)community / careers partnershipImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 26 January 2024Queen's College partners with Aurora Foxes, a SEN college in Minehead where young adults with additional needs receive specialist hospitality training. Students attend Aurora Foxes from across the UK and the partnership supports inclusion and careers engagement. Announced 26 January 2024.
• Academic Campssecondary holiday-camp partnerChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 2 May 2023Queen's College partnered with Academic Camps to deliver camps for children aged 7-16 on the school site during May half-term and summer holidays. Announced 2 May 2023.
• Methodist Independent Schools Trust (MIST)foundational / governanceOthersQueen's College is a member of the Methodist Independent Schools Trust (MIST), a group of schools founded as part of the Methodist Church's Christian mission in education. MIST contact: Methodist School, 66 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LH. The relationship is foundational to the school's Methodist ethos and chaplaincy provision.
• High Performance Learning (HPL)flagship educational frameworkTechnology or IntegrationQueen's joined the High Performance Learning global community in June 2023, embedding the HPL framework across teaching. Culminated in HPL 'World Class School' status in June 2025, the globally-recognised award for schools deeply committed to helping every student achieve their best.
• Boarding Schools' Association (BSA)accreditation / industry membershipOthersQueen's College is a member of the Boarding Schools' Association (BSA), the UK trade body for boarding schools. Logo displayed in the footer of queenscollege.org.uk alongside other school accreditations.
• AGBIS (Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools)accreditation / industry membershipOthersMember of AGBIS, the Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools, as indicated by the AGBIS logo in the school footer.
• AMCIS (Association of Marketing, Communications, Admissions and International Recruitment in Schools)accreditation / industry membershipOthersMember of AMCIS, as indicated by the AMCIS logo in the school footer.
• HMC (Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference)accreditation / industry membershipOthersMember of HMC, the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the leading UK independent-school head teachers' association. HMC logo displayed in the school footer.
• IAPS (Independent Association of Prep Schools)accreditation / industry membershipOthersMember of IAPS, the Independent Association of Prep Schools, as indicated by the IAPS logo in the school footer.
• ISBA (Independent Schools' Bursars Association)accreditation / industry membershipOthersMember of ISBA, the Independent Schools' Bursars Association, as indicated by the ISBA logo in the school footer.
• ToucanTechcore technology vendorTechnology or IntegrationToucanTech is the vendor powering the Queen's College Connected alumni and community platform, providing the alumni management software, event ticketing, mentoring, donations and shop functionality. Data is stored on AWS EU cloud managed by ToucanTech.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)infrastructure vendorTechnology or IntegrationQueen's College Taunton stores alumni and community data on a dedicated, secure AWS cloud server located in the EU, with industry-standard firewalls, anti-virus, encryption and back-up. Hosting is managed by the school's website provider, ToucanTech.
• iubendacompliance vendorTechnology or IntegrationQueen's College uses iubenda to publish its privacy and cookie policies on the main queenscollege.org.uk website.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Blundell's School: Independent co-educational day and boarding school in Tiverton, Devon. Comparable West Country independent boarding competitor at similar fee tier.
• Badminton School: Independent girls' day and boarding school in Bristol. Comparable size, full-boarding model and South West England catchment, with similar premium positioning.
• Wellington School: Independent co-educational day and boarding school in Wellington, Somerset — adjacent town to Taunton. Overlapping catchment and similar size and fee profile.

Direct peers

• Taunton School: Directly comparable independent day and boarding school located in the same town as Queen's. Competes for the same Taunton and Somerset catchment and offers a similar Nursery–Sixth Form pathway.
• King's College, Taunton: Long-established independent co-educational day and boarding school in Taunton. Direct competitor for pupils in the same Somerset catchment and similar Methodist/Christian heritage roots.

Broad incumbents

• Marlborough College: Major independent co-educational boarding school in Wiltshire. Comparable heritage, full boarding model, and HMC-member independent school positioning.
• Sherborne School: Historic independent boarding school in Dorset, also in the South West of England, with comparable heritage, alumni prestige and fee-charging model.
• Millfield: Large, well-known independent school in Street, Somerset with extensive sports and co-curricular specialism. Comparable South West independent competitor, especially in sport.
• Clifton College: Larger established Bristol independent day and boarding school with Nursery through Sixth Form, HMC member and comparable academic and co-curricular offering.
• Bryanston School: Independent co-educational boarding school in Dorset. Comparable fee tier, HMC membership, and full co-curricular offering as a Southern England independent boarding competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

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