| Sandroyd School | |
| Pushpin Map: | Wiltshire |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Wiltshire |
| Motto: | Niti Est Nitere (Latin) To strive is to shine |
| Established: | 1880 |
| Type: | Independent school Co-educational Day and boarding school |
| Head Label: | Headmaster |
| Head: | Alastair Speers |
| Chair Label: | Chairman of the Governors |
| Chair: | Rhodri Thomas |
| Founder: | Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley |
| Address: | Rushmore Park |
| Country: | England |
| Postcode: | SP5 5QD |
| Dfeno: | 865/6004 |
| Urn: | 126521 |
| Enrolment: | Approx. 230 [1] |
| Lower Age: | 2 |
| Upper Age: | 13 |
| Houses: | Wylye, Nadder, Ebble, Avon |
Sandroyd School is an independent co-educational preparatory school for day and boarding pupils aged 2 to 13 in the south of Wiltshire, England. The school's main building is Rushmore House, a 19th-century country house which is surrounded by the Rushmore Estate, now playing fields, woods and parkland.[2] Sandroyd School was originally established by Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley.
In the latest Independent Schools Inspectorate report carried out in 2023, Sandroyd School was judged as 'excellent' across all areas.[3]
The school is in the south of Berwick St John parish, near the village of Tollard Royal and the county border with Dorset.
Sandroyd School was founded as a school for boys by L. H. Wellesley Wesley at Sandroyd House, Fairmile, in Cobham, Surrey in 1880.[4] He was a great-grandson of Charles Wesley.[5]
In 1939, in anticipation of the Second World War, the school moved to Rushmore House, home of the Pitt-Rivers family. The house lies in the centre of Cranborne Chase on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset. A link between the two sites is that Sandroyd House was built in 1860 for the pre-Raphaelite painter John Roddam Spencer Stanhope by the architect Philip Webb (1831–1915), the friend of William Morris, and it was Webb who remodelled the interior of Rushmore for General Pitt Rivers twenty years later.
In the 1960s the school purchased the freehold of the school site. In 1995 the school started to accept day pupils, and in 2004 it became coeducational.
Sandroyd School has a pre-prep and nursery which was opened in 2004, for children aged two to seven. This was described as 'excellent' in an ISI inspection report of 2023.
See also People educated at Sandroyd SchoolFormer pupils, known as Old Sandroydians, include:[6]