| PREPARATORY | Such a school? A head leaving chapel to chase pupils' work |
| BOARDING | Getting on, at such a school? |
| URANIUM | One's written on table at school? A case for the head, given united front (7) |
| ECLECTIC | An epithet of philosophers not attached to a school; a word meaning broad, diverse or multifarious; or, one who draws inspiration from a variety of different sources (8) |
| SISTINE | Roman chapel to persist in explaining its contents (7) |
| CHA | Have tea in the chapel to begin with (3) |
| STEEPLECHASER | Nag guide to be shown round ruined chapels to the east (13) |
| REFORMATORY | Would such a school turn a Conservative into a Labourite? |
| CONVENT | Such a school may be happy to have a change of heart (7) |
| ETON | "River-town" in Berkshire whose name is given to a boys' school, a collar, a cropped hairstyle, a game of fives, a jacket and a mess of crushed meringue and strawberries (4) |
| FEEDER | _ school, a primary school whose pupils go to a specific secondary school (6) |
| EARN | Head's leaving to be taught to make money (4) |
| TUCK | A rapier; a fold or pleat; a gathering of ends; a child's sweets and snacks for school; a curled dive position; a fictional friar; or, abdominoplasty (4) |
| REMARK | Note to check a pupil's work again (6) |
| DISC | Record of Oundle's Head leaving a dance club (4) |
| RECKLESS | Brown spots head leaving school without care (8) |
| LEADTHEWAY | Wealthy head leaving hospital after treatment to go first (4,3,3) |
| ESCHEW | Avoid Eastern school with new head leaving (6) |
| WATERSHED | In Walter's head, leaving LA is a turning point (9) |
| PUBLIC | But such a school is private |
