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The following is a list of notable boarding schools in the United Kingdom. Many of the private schools in the United Kingdom are boarding schools, although nearly all also have day pupils. There are also about 30 state boarding schools in England .
University College School (boys only for ages 7–16, coed for ages 16–18) Westminster School (boys only for primary and secondary, coed for sixth form) Greater Manchester. Altrincham Grammar School for Boys; Bolton School Single Sex Junior, Senior, and Sixth Form schools; Bury Grammar School; Burnage Academy for Boys; Darul Uloom Bolton
There are about 30 state boarding schools in England, providing state-funded education but charging for boarding. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In addition, the Five Islands Academy in St Mary's, Isles of Scilly , provides free boarding during the week to secondary students from other islands.
Eton College (/ ˈ iː t ən / ⓘ EE-tən) [3] is a public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys aged 13–18, in Eton, Berkshire, England.It has educated prime ministers, world leaders, Nobel laureates, Academy Award and BAFTA award-winning actors, and generations of the aristocracy, and has been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". [4]
There are 130,000 pupils in over 500 prep schools of all types and sizes. Prep schools may be for boys or girls only, or may be co-educational. They may be day schools, boarding schools, weekly boarding, flexi-boarding, or a combination. They fall into the following general categories: [3] [4]
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Most of the larger private schools are either full or partial boarding schools, although many have now become predominantly day schools. By contrast there are only a few dozen state boarding schools. Boarding-school traditions give a distinctive character to British private education, even in the case of day-pupils.
A typical boarding school has several separate residential houses, either within the school grounds or in the surrounding area. A number of senior teaching staff are appointed as housemasters, housemistresses, dorm parents, prefects, or residential advisors, each of whom takes quasi-parental responsibility (in loco parentis) for anywhere from 5 to 50 students resident in their house or ...