• Tennis Avenue is ambitious, disciplined and highly focused, and aims to build champions on and off the court through respect, accountability, resourcefulness and excellence.

• Will suit families seeking a very specialist Surrey school for a young player who wants tennis woven into school life rather than fitted around it.

Admissions at Tennis Avenue School are highly distinctive and should appeal to families with a genuinely committed young tennis player who also needs a workable school structure around training. The school should mainly suit children for whom the integration of academics and high-level tennis is the central attraction rather than an interesting extra.

Scholarships are not really the public story here. The value lies in the integrated tennis-and-schooling model, and families should ask directly about fee flexibility or talent-related support rather than assume a conventional scholarship scheme.

The overall picture is specialist and unusually explicit, with the school setting out a timetable that blends academic lessons with daily tennis, fitness and mental-performance work and a maximum capacity of around 40 students. Parents should still visit because the decisive question is whether the sporting intensity and small scale feel energising rather than limiting for their child.