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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)
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.
The Catholic Education Service provides the central co-ordination under the Bishops' Conference for Catholic schools in England and Wales. In England and Wales, Catholic schools come under the jurisdiction of their local diocese who can inspect the religious education and acts of worship of the school under Section 48 of the Education Act 2005 ...
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.
Preshute Church of England Primary School Preshute: 1833 [10] 192 11 Marlborough College: Marlborough: 1843 [11] 182 12 Pitton Primary School Pitton: 1850 [12] 175 13 Neston Primary School Neston: 1861 [13] 164 14 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School Devizes: 1864 [14] 161 15 St Mary's School, Calne: Calne: 1873 [15] 152 16 Chafyn Grove ...
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]
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.