It is mainly funded by the Department for Education's Music and Dance Scheme, by philanthropic foundations, by donations and bequests from individuals, and by regular support from the Friends of the Yehudi Menuhin School.

Today's School provides a holistic musical and academic education for around 85 students aged from 9 to 19, with specialist tuition on the stringed instruments, piano and classical guitar.

Parents are charged fees in accordance with their ability to pay, with around three-quarters supported by the Music and Dance Scheme and the remainder assisted by bursaries from the school.

The principal building (to which others were added) is a Victorian Neo-Gothic house in Stoke d'Abernon, easily accessible by road and train from London and set in fifteen acres of parkland.

[5] Menuhin's aim was to provide the school's pupils with outstanding teachers, adequate time to practise, frequent opportunities to perform, ensemble work with other gifted children, and a broad musical and general-academic education, all within a nourishing family community where each individual can develop his or her full potential.

Menuhin had been home-schooled himself by his parents and tutors in San Francisco, but he believed that it was in the interest of musically gifted children to live and study with their peers.