- About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast. - Admissions
Approximately 1 in 10 pupils receive a bursary or scholarship. We are committed to ensuring an MCS education is open to the brightest pupils, no matter their personal circumstances.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast.
- Senior School
39 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2023. - Sixth Form
Over 25% of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
- Supporting MCS
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an endowment to fund bursaries for the future.
39 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2023.
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an - About MCS
MCS ranks among the top independent secondary schools in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2024, placed seventh nationally and third in the Southeast.
- Admissions
Approximately 1 in 10 pupils receive a bursary or scholarship. We are committed to ensuring an MCS education is open to the brightest pupils, no matter their personal circumstances.
- Junior School
“The Junior School is a very busy and happy school and here, a smile goes a long way.”
- Senior School
39 of our pupils achieved 10 or more 8 or 9 grades in 2023.
- Sixth Form
Over 25% of our Sixth Form pupils take up places at Oxford and Cambridge every year.
- Supporting MCS
Your donations contribute over £150,000 a year to bursaries as well as building an endowment to fund bursaries for the future.
MCS Mathematics teacher Paul Shrimpton has returned from four days in Rome attending events and services around the canonisation of John Henry Newman.
Around 200,000 people attended the main service conducted by Pope Francis in St Peter’s Square, including Prince Charles who was there representing the Queen.
Afterwards, Dr Shrimpton accompanied Prince Charles to the English seminary in Rome, where there was an exhibition on Newman for which he had written the storyboards, and was invited to show HRH around.
Dr Shrimpton wrote his doctorate on Newman and education in the 1990s while teaching at MCS, which was published in 2004 as A Catholic Eton?  He has spent nine years researching Newman’s educational work at Oriel College, Oxford and then acting as founding rector of a new university in Ireland – now known as UCD (published in 2014 as The ‘Making of Men’);  then more recently wrote about Newman’s influence on the White Rose resistance movement in Nazi Germany. Currently, he is editing his unpublished university papers for his fourth book.
"I suppose I am world expert on Newman and education. Newman is famous as a theologian, philosopher, novelist, the greatest sermon writer in English, the leader of the Oxford movement – and for his writings and work in education"
Dr Paul Shrimpton, MCS Mathematics Teacher
Newman is the first English person to have been made a saint since the Middle Ages, who was not a martyr.
Many thanks to Dr Shrimpton, for sharing photographs of this auspicious occasion with us.
