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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) and is now St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School) Burford School ...
Prep (preparatory) schools (also known as private schools) educate younger children up to the age of 13 to prepare them for entry to the public schools and other secondary schools. In 2023, the Independent Schools Council reports that private schools contribute £16.5 billion to gross value added (GVA) in Britain. [2]
Bristol Grammar School, England (1532) Nicolas Gibson Free School now the Coopers' Company and Coborn School, England (1536) [18] Elizabethan Grammar School now Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, England (1536) Gazi Husrev-beg medresa , Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1537) [19] Kilkenny College. Ireland (1538)
A free school was founded by the Duchy in the name of Queen Elizabeth with an endowment of £7 p.a. [65] Truro Grammar School: Truro Cathedral School: c. 1580 Independent Styled a free school; one of its original benefactors was County Recorder, Viscount Falmouth, who contributed a "generous" £25 p.a., and donated three gold medals.
The Free School, Woodbridge, was an expression of the new confidence in England following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Local citizens contributed to the founding of the school in 1662, appointing a schoolmaster on an annual salary of £25 to teach, without charge, ten ‘sons of the meaner sort of the inhabitants of the town’. [1]
The Assisted Places Scheme was established in the UK by the Conservative government in 1980.Children who were eligible were provided with free or subsidised places to fee-charging independent schools - based on the child's results in the school's entrance examination (the fees contributions charged were based on an annual means test).
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 ...
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 .