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Lady Boswell's Church of England Primary School, first state primary school (1675) The John Roan School (1677) Sandbach School (1677) Davenant Foundation School (1680) Parmiter's School (1681) All Saints Roman Catholic School, York (1686) (Oldest Catholic girls school, becoming coeducational in 1985)
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]
The Catholic Education Service provides the central co-ordination under the Bishops' Conference for Catholic schools in England and Wales. In England and Wales, Catholic schools come under the jurisdiction of their local diocese who can inspect the religious education and acts of worship of the school under Section 48 of the Education Act 2005 ...
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 is known for the quality of its choral and instrumental music and is one of England's oldest Catholic schools. The London Oratory School was named in The Sunday Times as one of the 'Top 10 Comprehensive Schools in the UK' for both 2022 and 2023. [2] [3]
Roman Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Birmingham (4 C, 1 P) Catholic boarding schools in England (1 C, 31 P) Roman Catholic schools in the Diocese of Brentwood (2 C)
The school has been fully co-educational since 1999. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. [4] A precursor institution of the college was founded in 1593 by Father Robert Persons SJ at St Omer, [5] [6] at a time when penal laws prohibited Catholic education in England.
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