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There are about 30 state boarding schools in England, providing state-funded education but charging for boarding. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In addition, the Five Islands Academy in St Mary's, Isles of Scilly , provides free boarding during the week to secondary students from other islands.
The following is a list of notable boarding schools in the United Kingdom. Many of the private schools in the United Kingdom are boarding schools, although nearly all also have day pupils. There are also about 30 state boarding schools in England .
Scottish students from independent schools are over-represented at the four ancient universities of Scotland. They represented 26% of the student body at the four institutions in 2014/15 with 71% in total receiving an offer of admission at one of the four ancient universities compared to only 29% of state-school entrants. [8]
Bosworth Independent School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school), the school is co-educational.Located in Northampton, England.Bosworth is a member of the 12 Cats Colleges, all of which nationally recognised for being amongst the top performing grades at GCSE and A-Level in the UK.
A typical boarding school has several separate residential houses, either within the school grounds or in the surrounding area. A number of senior teaching staff are appointed as housemasters, housemistresses, dorm parents, prefects, or residential advisors, each of whom takes quasi-parental responsibility (in loco parentis) for anywhere from 5 to 50 students resident in their house or ...
English secondary schools are mostly comprehensive, except in many areas that retain a form of the previous selective system (with students selected for grammar school). There are also a number of isolated fully selective grammar schools, and a few dozen partially selective schools. Specialist schools may also select up to 10% of their intake ...
Brighton College is a fee-charging, co-educational, boarding and day public school for boys and girls aged 3 to 18 in Brighton and Hove, England.The school has three sites: Brighton College (the senior school, ages 11 to 18), Brighton College Preparatory School (children aged 8 to 13, located next to the senior school) and the Pre-Prep School (children aged 3 to 8).
Jamiatul Ilm Wal Huda, also known as Darul Uloom Blackburn, is an 11–25 private, Islamic, boarding and day school for boys in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. [2] It was established in 1997 [ 3 ] and its name means The College of Knowledge and Guidance .