7 London private schools have been named in the top 100 in the world for 2025

Everyone wants to peak behind the curtain into the lives of the mega rich: where do they live, what car do they drive, and where do they send their kids to school?

Spear’s 500, AKA ‘the Michelin guide of wealth’ has just published its annual Schools Index for 2025 – a list of 100 of the top (and most expensive) fee-paying schools on the planet. 

London being the playground for the rich that it is, a few of our schools made the cut, while some got the chop from last year’s list. London institutions that lost their place in the top 100 were Broomfield House School, King’s College School, Queen’s College, North London Collegiate School and Highgate School. 

Included in this year’s batch was Harrow, an extremely prestigious boys’ college that educated the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch, Winston Churchill and Richard Curtis. Westminster School, London’s most expensive school which charges up to £20,995 per term, also made the list, while St Paul’s Girls’ School and Hill House in Knightsbridge were also included. 

A total of 35 British schools were included in this year’s ranking, down from 40 in 2024. Spear’s explained that lower number of British schools in the index is down to the UK government’s recent VAT on independent schools and several other policy changes that have apparently made them less attractive to ultra-high net worth families.

It added that those super rich people are instead sending their kids schools in Africa, East Asia and the Middle East which ‘continue to be rooted in “traditional” values that are perceived as being in decline at a number of British schools’.

Find all the British schools listed here. 

All the London schools in Spear’s Schools Index 2025

• Harrow School, Harrow-on-the-Hill
  
• Hill House School, Knightsbridge
  
• Sussex House School, London
• Thomas’s Battersea, London
• Westminster School, London
• St Paul’s Girls’ School, London
• St Paul’s School, London

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