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Private schools are popular for academic and sporting performance, prestige, exclusivity and old boys/girls networks; however, many state-integrated schools and some prestigious single-sex state schools, such as Auckland Grammar School and Wellington College, are actively competitive with private schools in academic and sporting achievement ...
Private schools in the United Kingdom (also called independent schools) [1] are schools that require fees for admission and enrollment. Some have financial endowments, most are governed by a board of governors, and are owned by a mixture of corporations, trusts and private individuals. They are independent of many of the regulations and ...
Kamehameha Schools, formerly called Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate (KSBE), is a private school system in Hawaiʻi established by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, under the terms of the will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, [7] who was a formal member of the House of Kamehameha. Bishop's will established a trust called the "Bernice Pauahi ...
www.choate.edu. Choate Rosemary Hall, informally shortened to Choate (/ tʃoʊt / [3]), is a private, co-educational, college-preparatory boarding school in Wallingford, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1890, it took its present name and began a co-educational system with the 1978 merger of The Choate School for boys and Rosemary Hall for ...
The song's title is parodied by heavy metal band Twisted Sister in the song "Be Crool to Your Scuel". Mike Love performed the song on a telethon on the Full House episode "Our Very First Telethon"; while the title of a later episode, "Be True to Your Preschool", is a reference to the song. The song is featured in the 1980s TV series Riptide ...
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 ...
Harrow School – "Forty Years On". King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford – Jerusalem. Millfield School – Jerusalem. The London Oratory School - "Quam Bonum Est". Oundle School – "Carmen Undeliense". Reigate Grammar School – "To Be a Pilgrim". Sherborne School - The Carmen[3] Stamford High School - “Within these walls of grey ...
This was "the start of a new kind of school". [45] Elizabeth I refounded Westminster School in 1560, [46] [47] with new statutes, to select forty Queen's Scholars. [48] This created a "triad" of privileged schools—Winchester, Eton and Westminster. [49] From the 16th century onward, boys' boarding schools continued to be founded or endowed for ...