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St Edmund's College (1568) (Oldest Catholic school in England) The Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester, Dorset (1569) (formerly Dorchester Free School) Bury Grammar School (1570) Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle (1571) St Olave's Grammar School (1571) St Mary Redcliffe School (1571) (merged with Temple Colston School for girls (1709 ...
The Independent Schools Council (ISC), through seven affiliated organisations, represents 1,300 schools that together educate over 80 per cent of the pupils in the UK private sector. Those schools in England which are members of the affiliated organisations of the ISC are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate under a framework ...
Reading School, England (1125 as the school of Reading Abbey, refounded 1486, Royal charter 1541, closed in the 1860s, re-opened 1871) [12] Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland (1128) Stirling High School, Scotland (1129) Stiftsgymnasium Melk, Austria (pre-1140) Bristol Cathedral School, England (1140) The Prebendal School, England (1116)
The school sits outside the state-funded university system and UCAS application system. As an independent school, the AA does not participate in university rankings. The AA enrolls a higher proportion of students from overseas compared to other architecture schools in the UK. [19]
Many are represented by the Independent Schools Council (ISC), while around 300 independent senior schools are represented by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), although both bodies also represent schools outside England and the United Kingdom. This is a list of notable independent schools in England that are currently ...
Endowed schools have a long history. The oldest, having been founded in 597 as a cathedral school, is King's School, Canterbury.Over time a group of the endowed schools became known as "public schools" to differentiate from private teaching by tutors and to indicate that they were open to the public regardless of religious beliefs, locality and social status. [4]
This is an incomplete list of private (independent) schools in the United Kingdom. Also refer to the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference for a list of their member schools ( boarding and day schools ) in the United Kingdom , Crown dependencies and the Republic of Ireland .
This is a list of some of the endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century.It is based on the antiquarian Nicholas Carlisle's survey of "Endowed Grammar Schools" published in 1818 [1] with descriptions of 475 schools [2] but the comments are referenced also to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later.