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St Edmund's College (1568) (Oldest Catholic school in England) 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 ...
The Independent Schools Council (ISC), through seven affiliated organisations, represents 1,300 schools that together educate over 80 per cent of the pupils in the UK private sector. Those schools in England which are members of the affiliated organisations of the ISC are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate under a framework ...
Reading School, England (1125 as the school of Reading Abbey, refounded 1486, Royal charter 1541, ... List of the oldest private schools in the United States;
The following are the oldest private schools in the United States that are still in operation. The list does not include schools that have closed or consolidated with another school to form a new institution. The list is ordered by date of creation, and currently includes schools founded before 1800.
There are around 2,400 private schools in England. [1] 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 some of the endowed schools in England and Wales existing in the early part of the 19th century.It is based on the antiquarian Nicholas Carlisle's survey of "Endowed Grammar Schools" published in 1818 [1] with descriptions of 475 schools [2] but the comments are referenced also to the work of the Endowed Schools Commission half a century later.
Historically, the term private school referred to a school in private ownership, in contrast to an endowed school subject to a trust or of charitable status. Many of the older independent schools catering for the 13–18 age range in England and Wales are known as public schools, seven of which were the subject of the Public Schools Act 1868.
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 .