Boarding facilities are available at Haydon Bridge Community High School for students who live within the catchment area, but too far away from school for convenience of daily travel.

Boarding accommodation aims to provide as near a home-like environment as is practical, with this caring situation being based on the highest standards of behaviour, trust, respect, morality and common sense so that there is a mutually acceptable sense of responsibility.

Boarding is provided at Ridley Hall which is a fine old country house set on a thirty-three acre estate comprised of woodland, playing fields and lawned gardens. The estate borders the Allen Banks, a nature reserve owned by the National Trust. The surrounding woods comprise mainly of mature stands of oak and beech trees, which harbour roe deer, red squirrels and other fauna.