Monkton Combe School

Monkton Combe School is a public school (fee-charging boarding and day school), in the village of Monkton Combe near Bath in Somerset, England.

Monkton Combe School was founded in 1868 by the Revd. Francis Pocock, a former curate to the Bishop of Sierra Leone in the 1850s.

Clarendon School for Girls, a former independent girls school merged with Monkton in 1992, at which point the school became coeducational.

It is a member of the Rugby Group of independent boarding schools in the United Kingdom.

Several of the school's buildings are listed, including the main Senior school block known as The Old Farm, and the part of the Terrace Block known as The Old Vicarage.

The school has extensive grounds at both the Preparatory (prep) and Senior schools. The Senior cricket pitches (Longmead and Landham) with their thatched pavilion are described as among the most picturesque in England, regularly featuring in the Wisden Cricket Calendar's ‘loveliest grounds’ lists.

The school has two boathouses, both on the River Avon. The older is on the edge of the Senior school grounds, sitting below the Dundas Aqueduct and is used mainly for junior rowing. In 2014 the school opened a new boathouse in the nearby village of Saltford. Students row as part of the Monkton Combe School Boat Club, with alumni racing under the Monkton Bluefriars club.

At the Senior school there are three boys houses: Farm, Eddystone and School; and three girls houses: Grange, Clarendon and Nutfield. Each house has both day and boarding pupils. The Prep school has four mixed houses: Howard, Easterfield, Kearns & Jameson, as well as one boarding house (Hatton) which does not come into the main house system.