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Rugby School is a private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England. [ 1 ] Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. [ 2 ]
Rugby Public School District No. 5, also known as Rugby Public Schools, is a school district headquartered in Rugby, North Dakota. It operates two schools: Ely Elementary School and Rugby High School. In Pierce County the district serves Rugby, Balta, Barton, and Orrin. [1] Within Benson County the district serves Knox. [2]
Avon Park School, Rugby Brooke School, Rugby Corley Academy, Corley* Discovery Academy, Nuneaton Evergreen School, Warwick Exhall Grange School, Exhall; Oak Wood Primary School, Nuneaton
The Rugby Group is a group of 18 British public schools. The group was formed in the 1960s as an association of major boarding schools within the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference . As with the Eton Group , which was formed a few years later, headmasters and heads of the academic departments meet annually in rotation to discuss ...
Rugby High School is a selective grammar school situated in the Bilton area of Rugby, Warwickshire, England. The school motto is “She Sets Heights In Her Heart”. It takes girls aged 11–18 and boys 16–18. To attend this school, all students must have scored highly in the Eleven plus exam.
It is a part of Rugby Public Schools. The athletic teams are known as the Panthers. Rugby High serves Rugby, Balta, Barton, and Orrin in Pierce County, [2] and Knox in Benson County. [3] The district also includes a section of Rolette County. [4] Its projected high school enrollment for the 1988–1989 school year was 259. [5]
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in England in the first half of the 19th century. Rugby is based on running with the ball in hand.
The school is named after Lawrence Sheriff, the Elizabethan founder of Rugby School. The school was founded in 1878, in order to continue Sheriff's original bequest for a free grammar school for the boys of Rugby and surrounding villages, which had originally been fulfilled by Rugby School, until the latter moved to become a fee-paying public ...