Mount St Mary's College is a private, co-educational, day and boarding school situated at Spinkhill, Derbyshire, England.

It was founded in 1842 by the Society of Jesus (better known as the Jesuits), and has buildings designed by notable architects such as Joseph Hansom, Henry Clutter and Adrian Gilbert Scott.

[2] Since 1580, during the English Reformation, there have been Jesuits living and working in Spinkhill, serving the local Catholic population.

[3] The school was in buildings owned by members of the Pole family who were related to those living at nearby Radbourne Hall.

It was originally called the College of the Immaculate Conception at Spinkhill and it was founded by Fr Randall Lythgoe, the provincial superior of the Jesuits in Britain at the time.

[7] In 1939, Barlborough Hall, an Elizabethan manor some two miles from Spinkhill, was acquired to serve as a preparatory school to Mount St Mary's College.

[9] During Baines' Headmastership from 1939 to 1945, he was also accepted into the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, thus establishing the college as a Public School.

[13] The college has had exchanges with Notre Dame St Sigisbert in Nancy, France, and with Col·legi Casp and Joan 23 schools in Barcelona.

In 2009, the college began an exchange with St. Michel in Saint-Étienne, France and considers Lycée Notre-Dame Saint-Sigisbert a sister school.

[citation needed] The college has a Grade 1 Athletics Stadium, which was selected as a Pre-Games Training Camp for the London 2012 Summer Olympics.