Moor Farm, Sandy Lodge Road, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire WD3 1LW
10 reasons to choose Merchant Taylors' Prep School
Top line
Merchant Taylors’ Prep School has a Schoolsmith Score® of 86. It is one of the best independent prep schools in and around Rickmansworth and one of the 6 best primary schools for 3 miles.
School fundamentals
Merchant Taylors’ Prep School is an independent prep day school for boys between the ages of 3 and 13 years. It is a Church of England school, open to all faiths and none. The school has an academically selective admissions policy. It is the prep school to Merchant Taylors’ School, an all-through school to age 18, and is a member of the Merchant Taylors’ Educational Trust. Merchant Taylors’ Prep School fees range from £7,457 (Rec) to £7,848 per term (2025/26). Fees include VAT but exclude lunches.
Average class size
Merchant Taylors’ Prep School has two classes per year and an average class size of 19 pupils.
Leavers' destinations
At the end of Year 8, 60-70% of Prep pupils move up to Merchant Taylor’s School. Offers are made in Year 5 for current prep pupils, and Year 7 for new joiners. John Lyon School accounts for 15%-20% of Year 8 leavers, with annual placings at Harrow, Haberdasher Aske’s, Westminster and St Paul’s. 60% of pupils win awards and scholarships. About 10% leave for local grammars and independents at age 11.
The Merchant Taylors' Prep School curriculum
School curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and the ISEB Common Entrance curriculum with some additions and variations. It also includes philosophy, PSHEE, French, Latin. The school offers each pupil between 5 and 10 different extra-curricular academic activities or hobby clubs.
More on the curriculum
There are regular educational trips for all year groups, visiting speakers and residential trips from Year 4. School has Eco Schools Green Flag accreditation.
Specialist teaching
Specialist teachers for sport, music, and languages throughout, for computing, drama, art, DT from Year 3, and for all subjects from Year 5.
Sport at Merchant Taylors' Prep School
School offers between 10 and 15 different sports over the course of the year. Competitive teams in major sports from Year 3. In recent years the school has enjoyed national success in cricket, swimming.
The Arts at Merchant Taylors' Prep School
Art, music and drama are taught as discrete curricular subjects to all pupils. All pupils learn an instrument in class and up to half take extra-curricular instrument lessons from Year 3. Choir, orchestra and several instrument ensembles. The school offers each pupil over 5 different extra-curricular creative and performing arts clubs.
Wraparound care
Wraparound care from 7.45am to 6.00pm.
Find another school near Merchant Taylors' Prep School
Royal Masonic School Cadogan House (2.7 miles); Charlotte House Preparatory School (3.1 miles); St Martin’s School, Northwood (3.7 miles).
St Anthony’s Catholic Primary School, Watford (1.5 miles); Rickmansworth Park Junior Mixed and Infant School (2.3 miles); St John’s Catholic Primary School, Rickmansworth (2.8 miles).
Royal Masonic School for Girls (2.7 miles); Northwood College (3.7 miles); St Helen’s School (4 miles).
Watford Grammar School for Boys (1.9 miles); Watford Grammar School for Girls (2.6 miles); Rickmansworth School (2.8 miles).