Guardian investigation finds pupils at England’s wealthiest schools have much greater access to land, with implications for mental health
How England’s top private schools came to own 38,000 acres of landChildren at the top 250 English private schools have more than 10 times as much outdoor space as those who go to state schools, an exclusive Guardian analysis can reveal.
The private school campuses include tennis courts, golf courses, rowing lakes, swimming pools, equestrian centres, wilderness areas, and remote camping lodges.
We also looked at the amount of outdoor space available to England’s state schools, and spoke to experts about some of the issues facing our children. As Tina Farr of St Ebbes primary school in Oxford told us: “We need to start running schools in line with healthy child development. We can give them a nourishing six hours a day and we absolutely have to.”
Close to 245,000 pupils attended these private schools in the 2021/22 academic year, meaning they had an average of 322Meanwhile, according to the Department for Education, state schools have 263,300,000 sq metres of green space and playgrounds, which is 32 Marmot said unequal access to green space is likely to have a profound effect on children’s mental and physical wellbeing, citing evidence that exercising in green space improves mental health and reduces inequalities in mortality, and is also likely to impact increasing rates of childhood obesity. “A school with limited access to playing fields or open space will have a great deal more difficulty in building exercise into children’s lives,” he said.
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