Alpha Plus Group

Alpha Plus Group is an English education company which runs a network of pre-preparatory, preparatory and secondary independent schools, colleges and nurseries. It is the second largest private education business in the UK. The group was acquired by Sovereign Capital in 2002 and sold to investment group Delancey in December 2007. The chairman of governors is Sir John Ritblat, British Land’s former chairman and major Conservative Party donor.

The Group’s origins date from the foundation in 1931 of DLD College ‘to provide tuition for the entrance examinations to Oxford and Cambridge universities and to the British Civil Service’. The College has moved campus five times and now occupies a state of the art building near Westminster Bridge, where it educates a diverse range of home and international students. Abbey College Manchester was established as a tutorial college in 1990 and now offers GCSE, Foundation and A level courses to local and international students. Abbey College Cambridge was founded in 1994 and has become one of the best sixth form colleges for international students in the UK. Our sixth form college students regularly gain entrance to Cambridge, Oxford and other leading UK universities.

St Anthony’s School is the oldest school owned by Alpha Plus. Founded in Eastbourne in 1893, it moved to Hampstead in 1952 and was acquired by the Group in 2009.Its sister school, St Anthony’s School for Girls opened in September 2016.

Wetherby School was founded in 1951, close to the site of the new Wetherby Kensington, and moved to its current premises in 1971; although many boys go on to Wetherby Prep, the pre-prep sends large numbers every year to Westminster Under School and St Paul’s Junior School. Wetherby Senior School opened in Marylebone in 2015 and continues the traditions established at Wetherby School and Wetherby Preparatory School.

The Falcons School for Boys, then known as Falkner House Boys, was founded in 1956 and at that time located in Notting Hill. In September 1989 the school transferred to its pre prep site in Burnaby Gardens, Chiswick. The preparatory site opened in Richmond in September 2008. The Falcons School for Girls, located in Putney was acquired in 2001.

Pembridge Hall was founded in 1979 and acquired in the 1980s. It regularly sends girls to St Paul’s Girls’ School, other top London schools and leading Girls’ boarding schools, including recent scholarship awards to Downe House, Cheltenham Ladies and Wycombe Abbey.

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