Bournemouth Collegiate School
Address
College Road Bournemouth , Dorset , BH5 2DY England
Coordinates	50°43′26″N 1°49′30″W / 50.7240°N 1.8251°W / 50.7240; -1.8251
Information
Type	Private day and boarding school
Established	1895 (Uplands School) 1899 (Wentworth College) 2009 (merger)
Department for Education URN	113937 Tables
Headmaster	Russell Slatford
Gender	Coeducational
Age	3 to 18
Enrolment	540~
Houses	Purbeck   Studland   Brownsea   Solent
Colour(s)	Blue
Website	http://www.bournemouthcollegiateschool.co.uk/

Bournemouth Collegiate School is a coeducational private day and boarding school based on two sites in Poole and Bournemouth, Dorset on the southern coast of England. The prep school (ages 2–11) is located in Poole and the senior school (ages 11–18) in the Southbourne West-Boscombe East-Pokesdown South area.^[1] The school is the only coeducational independent school in the Bournemouth and Poole area.

The school operates on split sites as a result of a merger between two independent schools, Wentworth College (Bournemouth) and Uplands School (Poole).^[2] The prep school is situated at the old Uplands site and the senior school at Wentworth.

History

Bournemouth Collegiate School was created in September 2009 by the merger of Wentworth College in Bournemouth and Uplands School in Poole. Wentworth College had joined the United Church Schools Trust in August 2008, and Uplands School in June 2009 – it was UCST that brought the two together to create a new school.^[3]

Uplands School

Uplands was an independent school in Poole founded in 1895 as Bourne School for Girls. It moved to various places before and after World War II and later became coeducational.^{[citation needed]}

Wentworth College

Wentworth College was previously an independent day and boarding school for girls. It took its name from Wentworth Lodge, the building it occupied. The school was founded by the merger of two schools during the 1960s. Milton Mount College was founded in 1871 with Selina Hadland as head.^[4] It was originally sited in Gravesend Kent, and then relocated to Worth Park near Crawley.^[5] The second, Bournemouth Collegiate School, was established in 1899 in the town centre and moved to Wentworth Lodge in 1923. Due to falling pupil numbers, Wentworth became coeducational in 2008.^[6] It went into administration in July 2008, which prompted the UCST to propose the merger.^[2]

Prep School

Bournemouth Collegiate Preparatory School
Address
40 St Osmund's Road Poole , Dorset , BH14 9JY England
Coordinates	50°43′12″N 1°56′16″W / 50.7201°N 1.9377°W / 50.7201; -1.9377
Information
Type	Preparatory day school
Department for Education URN	113929 Tables
Head of School	Kay Smith
Gender	Coeducational
Age	3 to 11
Website	http://www.bournemouthcollegiateschool.co.uk/prep-school/

The preparatory department is located at the former Uplands School site in Poole.

Boarding

The boarding facilities are built around the old Wentworth Lodge, in which Wentworth College was housed and which were once part of the Portman Estate. The house, built in 1872, was used by Viscount Portman as a summer residence for around six weeks every year.^[7]