The School

A Brief History of the School
St. Joseph’s School was first established by the Sisters of Mercy in 1934 as a Catholic Independent Co-Educational Day School. Over the last 75 years the school has built a reputation for its excellent academic standards as well as its outstanding pastoral care.

In 1990 the Sisters of Mercy relinquished their control of the school and the responsibility for the school was passed to a Board of Trustees.

The school is now both multi-faith and multi-ethnic which has strengthened our school family.

St. Joseph’s takes children from the age of twelve months up to eleven years. When children leave us at the age of eleven they move to a variety of schools. Many go to other Senior Independent schools such as Dagfa House, Hollygirt, Loughborough Grammar, Loughborough High, Nottingham High School for Boys, Nottingham High School for Girls or Trent College. Some enter the state sector for their secondary education with a number of children going on to either the Becket or Trinity, Catholic Secondary Schools.