Aims of Culcheth Hall School

• Provide an educational environment for girls that will enable each individual to develop academically, physically, socially and spiritually within the framework of the School and the wider community
• Foster the disciplines of hard work, loyalty, co-operation, independent study, lifelong learning, self-confidence and value as an individual, thus enabling each pupil to explore her own strengths and weaknesses.
• Provide a safe, secure and disciplined environment for children to learn and for teachers to teach.
• Promote self-respect and encouraging respect for others, their property, and respect for the local, national and global environment in which we all live.
• Equip each pupil with the necessary skills and aptitudes in the increasingly complex home, social and global work environment of today and tomorrow.
• Enable every pupil to fit into society as a well-mannered, pleasant, self-disciplined young adult, capable of succeeding in her chosen career when she leaves Culcheth Hall.
  

Evidence from Culcheth Hall School:

1. Culcheth Hall School educates 150 girls which saves the public purse about £1m a year and frees this amount for spending elsewhere in the education sector in Cheshire.
2. The education of 150 girls in a single sex environment is, in itself, a public good. 
3. Culcheth Hall School provides additional educational resources, e.g. tennis courts and sports hall, which would otherwise not exist.
4. Culcheth Hall School provides a limited number of means tested bursaries and scholarships.
5. Culcheth Hall School achieves excellent GCSE results for girls from non-selective backgrounds.
6. Culcheth Hall School is able to provide personal learning programmes to those girls who need additional help.
7. Culcheth Hall School offers diversity in size and character – small single sex girls’ school – this diversity gives parents a breadth of choice which is not available in the maintained sector.

Costs and benefits:

1. Culcheth Hall School suffers the burden of irrecoverable VAT on buildings, maintenance and on other costs.
2. Culcheth Hall School parents pay through taxation for the state education of their children. Their choice of an independent school means they pay twice to educate their children.
3. Culcheth Hall School’s charitable status widens access as it enables Culcheth Hall School to increase the availability of means tested bursaries.