Schools known for Fencing.
24 schools editorially verified as known for fencing — with the pathway to prove it (fixtures record, national-squad output, dedicated facility). Elite Sport 80 members appear first.
- 01ProfileDoha, QatarBoysBoarding
Inside Doha's Aspire Zone, scholarship footballers and track athletes pair IGCSE study with Olympic-grade sports science labs
- 02ProfileLondon, United KingdomBoysBoth
Sandwiched between Parliament and the Abbey, its Latin prayers and ancient halls send close to half of leavers on to Oxford or Cambridge.
Also known forrowing - 03ProfileLondon, United KingdomGirlsDay
A Hammersmith day school where admission itself is the only scholarship, and GCSE results already top the national table.
- 04ProfileLondon, United KingdomBoysBoth
A 1509 founding charter to teach boys 'from all nacions and countres indifferently' still anchors this riverside Barnes campus on the Thames.
- 05ProfileHong Kong, Hong KongDay
Hong Kong's first co-educational school runs DSE and IB side by side on its Mid-Levels campus, posting the city's top IB averages.
- 06ProfileLondon, United KingdomBoysBoarding
Founded in 1619 by an Elizabethan stage actor, its 75-acre South London campus still runs on three historic boarding houses.
- 07ProfileLondon, United KingdomGirlsDay
Founded in 1850 as Britain's first day school giving girls a boys'-standard education, it still tops national GCSE and A-level tables from its Edgware campus.
- 08ProfileHong Kong, Hong KongGirlsDay
Since 1860, this Kowloon institution has topped Hong Kong's Outstanding Student Awards tally for decades.
- 09ProfileElstree, United KingdomBoysDay
A 104-acre green-belt campus and a 34-route coach network bring rigorous, Oxbridge-focused schooling within reach of London
- 10ProfileLondon, United KingdomGirlsDay
Wedged between brutalist towers and the old Roman city wall, a rigorously academic day school with the capital as its classroom.
- 11ProfileLondon, United KingdomBoysDay
A 1442 bequest from the City's own Town Clerk still funds this rigorous day school perched on the Thames at Blackfriars.
Also known forrowing - 12ProfileBrighton, United KingdomBoth
Between the South Downs and the sea, a two-decade climb from mid-table to Sunday Times School of the Decade.
- 13ProfileHong Kong, Hong KongBoysBoth
Founded in 1869 on Kadoorie Hill, this Anglican foundation runs parallel IB and HKDSE tracks around a rare full-size sports field in Kowloon.
- 14ProfileNew York City, United StatesDay
Born as Columbia Teachers College's 1887 experiment, now a Riverdale hilltop campus that swaps AP exams for homegrown advanced courses
- 15ProfileLondon, United KingdomDay
Chartered by Elizabeth I in 1565, this Highgate grammar school now founds access academies alongside its Oxbridge-bound sixth form.
- 16ProfileShrewsbury, United KingdomBoth
Amid the ruins of a Shropshire castle estate, a fiercely academic sixth form channels 40 nationalities toward STEM and Oxbridge.
- 17ProfileNew York City, United StatesDay
A Bronx public school whose exam-only admissions have produced more Nobel physics laureates than any other U.S. high school.
- 18ProfileNew York City, United StatesDay
A tuition-free CUNY-run gifted school on the Upper East Side, admitting by a single brutal exam and about 7 percent of applicants.
- 19ProfileNew York City, United StatesDay
A century-old Bronx country day school split between a Hudson River campus and a Van Cortlandt Park hilltop, built on the motto Mind, Character, Community.
- 20ProfileBasking Ridge, United StatesDay
A 1861-founded New Jersey day school whose soccer pitches were deemed fit to host Morocco's 2026 World Cup training camp.
- 21ProfileLivingston, United StatesDay
Founded in 1774, this Livingston day school remains New Jersey's only private IB Diploma provider
Also known fortennis - 22ProfileHigh Wycombe, United KingdomGirlsBoth
A Victorian pioneer's 1896 foundation, this Chiltern hills estate blends mixed-age boarding houses with one-in-five Oxbridge offers.
- 23ProfilePrinceton, United StatesDay
Formed by a 1965 merger of two century-old Princeton schools, pairing STEAM rigor with a rare four-year architecture program across 106 acres.
- 24ProfileGuildford, United KingdomBoysDay
A working chained library inside a Grade I Tudor schoolroom anchors a 1509 foundation's steady march toward Oxbridge offers.
