Solway College is predominantly a boarding school, with a small number of day girl places available. Boarding at Solway College offers opportunities for full participation in all school activities and making friendships for life. Solway College has a friendly, inclusive family atmosphere, whereby students look after and support each other as they would in a family. A family atmosphere and values are recognised as being crucial to living happily and successfully at school, students care for and look after one another, further developing values such as concern for others, respect and personal integrity. The students themselves identify the strong friendships they establish as boarders as one of the best things about boarding. Senior girls are offered leadership responsibilities in both looking after younger
students and in the smooth running of the hostel and school.

Boarding offers greater opportunities to be involved in school-based and other after school and weekend activities. For students who get fully involved, boarding is great fun and very rewarding. From an academic perspective, boarding at Solway College is an advantage as all boarding students benefit from designated supervised prep/homework time. Along with establishing quality routines, this enables additional support from specialist teachers and specialist subject resources. The dormitories are warm and well equipped, with existing buildings having been recently refurbished, and our senior dormitories include two contemporary buildings newly built in 2021.