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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 Thomas Hardye School England (1579) Vilnius University, Lithuania (1579) Kirkcudbright Academy (earliest record of existence 1582) St. Bees School, England (1583) Pontificio Collegio Gallio , Como, Italy (1583) Oakham School, England (1584) Uppingham School, England (1584) Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne, England (1585)
St Edmund's College is a coeducational private day and boarding school in the British public school tradition, set in 440 acres (1.8 km 2) in Ware, Hertfordshire.Founded in 1568 as a seminary, then a boys' school, it is the oldest continuously operating and oldest post-Reformation Catholic school in the country.
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 .
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]
In England and Wales, Catholic schools are either private, and therefore funded privately through students' fees, or maintained by the state. Maintained Catholic schools are either Voluntary Aided, where 10% of the capital funding is provided by the Church, or Academies, which are fully state funded.
Ampleforth College is a co-educational fee-charging boarding and day school in the English public school tradition. It opened in 1803 as a boys' school. It is near the village of Ampleforth, North Yorkshire, England, [1] on the grounds of Benedictine monastery Ampleforth Abbey.
Roman Catholic schools in Wales (5 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Catholic schools in the United Kingdom" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.