St Edmund's School Canterbury

Analysis

St Edmund's School Canterbury is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in June 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 03201223). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, St Edmund's School Canterbury reported income of £13.1m and spending of £14.8m, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £9.7m to £13.1m (+36%), an average of +8.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 33%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, St Edmund's School Canterbury sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 99th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The College of St Peter Le Bailey in the University of Oxford (£13.1m), Princeton Charitable Foundation Limited (£13.2m) and The Edgbaston High School for Girls (£13.1m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 94%, donations and legacies 2.9% and trading 2.6%. Charitable activities took 99% of spending and raising funds 1.1%. Reserves of £3.7m would cover about 3 months of spending at that rate. It employed 174 people.