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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 ...
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)
Nevertheless, there exist Catholic independent schools such as St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, Fernhill School, Rutherglen, and Kilgraston School. During the Scottish Reformation , while there were no Catholic seminaries in England and Wales, there was a number of Scottish seminaries before the restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy .
In it, he notes that the Jesuits had established over 700 colleges and universities across Europe by 1749, with another hundred in the rest of the world, but in the aftermath of the Jesuit suppressions of the 18th and 19th centuries, all these schools were closed. The following schools were established in the post-suppression period. [1]
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.
Catholic schools are parochial pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered in association with the Catholic Church.As of 2011, the Catholic Church operates the world's largest religious, non-governmental school system. [1]
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]
This article contains a list of the oldest existing social institutions in continuous operation, by year of foundation, in the world.Inclusion in this list is determined by the date at which the entity met the traditional definition of an institution – may it be public, political, religious or educational – although it may have existed as a different kind of institution before that time.