Since 2015, Stuart McPherson, an Australian former Eton housemaster, has been headmaster at Worth School. His tenure has been a great success. The school’s sixth-form facilities will shortly be transformed with the opening of the new Spencer Building, a £6.25 million state of the art educational facility. Funded by Michael Spencer and masterfully designed by architect Tim Ronalds, the building is due to open in February.
“We are totally full,” says McPherson as we sit in his study before a tour of the school. “We are as big as we want to be at the moment. We feel we are the right size.” With 640 pupils, Worth – originally created as a junior prep school for Downside until it became independent in 1957 – is now considerably larger than its former parent school, which has around 370 pupils.
