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The Westminster School is a private, coeducational college-preparatory, boarding and day school located in Simsbury, Connecticut, United States, accepting around 20% of applicants. The total student population is approximately 400, and includes pupils from 25 US states and 30 countries. [ 1 ]
Westminster was the 13th most expensive HMC day school and tenth most expensive HMC boarding school in the UK in 2014/2015 [77] It achieved the highest percentage of students accepted by Oxbridge colleges over the period 2002–2006, [78] and was ranked as best boys' school in the country in terms of GCSE results in 2017. [79]
The Westminster School District (WSD) is an elementary school district in Orange County, California, established in 1872 and headquartered in Westminster. [7] It operates schools in Westminster, Garden Grove , Huntington Beach , and Midway City .
Little Dean's Yard from Liddell's Arch. Little Dean's Yard, known to Westminster School just as Yard, is a private gated yard at the heart of the school, within the precincts of the monastery of Westminster and on the original Thorney Island, now shared between Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster.
The school suspended 29 students in December 2008 for joining an open Facebook group described by the Head as "a hate campaign against a member of staff". Westminster City Council supported the school's decision. [9] [10] Teaching unions said that one in five teachers faces cyber-bullying, and called for expulsions in serious cases. Although ...
Fifteen- and sixteen-year-old girls compete for the other four scholarships, which are awarded to the top four students in subject-specific Sixth Form entrance exams. For 400 years the best of the scholars were elected to closed scholarships at Christ Church, Oxford , and Trinity College, Cambridge ; since the 1970s, Westminster School boys and ...
For the 2012–13 school year, Westminster was named the nation's best overall sports program for its eleven state championships and four second-place finishes. [10] Nearly a decade later, for the 2021-22 school year, Westminster was again named the nation's best overall sports program with ten state championships, two second-place finishes ...
Harris Westminster Sixth Form (also known as Harris Westminster or HWSF) is a selective sixth form in central London which was established with the goal of increasing the rate of entry to top universities among students from areas of socio-economic deprivation. [2]