Campus

Garden City and Geography

St. Francis’ College sits in Letchworth, where the world’s first garden city took root in 1903. The seven-acre campus unfolds among elegant gardens and parks, creating a calm atmosphere that helps students focus while maintaining easy access to both worlds: King’s Cross is thirty minutes by train, Cambridge even closer at twenty. What makes this arrangement particularly effective is how all age groups—from Nursery toddlers to Sixth Form graduates—share the same grounds, which fosters a genuine family feeling among younger and older girls alike.

Sports and Movement

The campus features a heated twenty-meter indoor pool where younger students learn to swim weekly while older ones train for competitions. A gymnasium, fitness center, and renovated dance studio accommodate everything from strength training to theatrical rehearsals, complemented outdoors by hockey fields and five courts for tennis and netball. These seven acres also host the annual Sports Day, when all students take to the fields for open-air competition—enough space, in other words, to keep everyone active year-round.

Theatre and Classrooms

The college’s centerpiece is a historic 330-seat theatre built in 1924 and modeled after West End venues, where students from Year 7 onward stage ambitious productions and musicals. Modern science laboratories and technology-equipped cooking classrooms support practical learning, while every teaching space comes with interactive boards, projectors, and high-speed internet. The campus also includes its own chapel, a separate Prep School building with an all-weather playground and enclosed garden, and a dedicated outdoor area where Nursery children can develop at their own pace.

Sixth Form Centre

Recently renovated, the Sixth Form Centre creates an autonomous university-style environment for older students. Downstairs, a spacious lounge with soft sofas and a café serving fresh pastries and quality coffee provides an informal gathering space between lessons, while upstairs houses the Co-Lab for group projects, a quiet Study room with individual carrels resembling a university library, and specialized seminar classrooms. When they need a break, students can retreat to the Zen Garden—a secluded green space that offers a moment of calm outdoors.