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Brockhurst was founded in 1884 at Church Stretton in Shropshire. It moved to its present site near Newbury in 1945 following the purchase of a fine listed country house and sixty acres of park-land surrounding it.

In recent years, Brockhurst has developed from a traditional single-sex boys school to one offering a unique choice of education to parents.

Together with Marlston House, its twin school for girls located in separate listed buildings on the same estate, Brockhurst aims to combine the best features of the single-sex and co-educational systems.

On moving up to the senior school from our co-educational pre-prep department aged six years, boys are taught in small single-sex classes because we believe this best enables them to realise their academic potential and to develop their self confidence. However, in order to foster the social development of the boys, which we see as the great attraction of co-education, they join the girls of Marlston House for Music, Art and Drama, and a wide range of extra- curricular activities. In this way, Brockhurst aims to offer a first class all-round education founded on Christian principles and a disciplined, happy family atmosphere.