St Piran's | |
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Location | |
Gringer Hill , , SL6 7LZ England | |
Information | |
Type | Private preparatory day school |
Religious affiliation(s) | Church of England |
Established | 1805 |
Local authority | Windsor and Maidenhead |
Department for Education URN | 110126 Tables |
Headmaster | Seb Sales |
Gender | Coeducational |
Age | 3to 11 |
Enrolment | ~350 |
Website | http://www.stpirans.co.uk/ |
St Piran's is a prep school located on Gringer Hill in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. The school was known as Cordwalles School until 1919 and has been co-educational since the 1990s.
The origin of St Piran's was in 1805 at a small school, the Revd John Potticary's school in Blackheath, at 2–3 Eliot Place. [1] After moving to its present location in 1872, it operated as a boys' boarding school under the name of Cordwalles School until 1919. [2] Up to this time, it was among a group of preparatory schools – which included Stubbington House School and Eastman's Royal Naval Academy – that maintained strong connections with the Royal Navy. [3] In that year, 1919, the school was bought by Major Vernon Seymour Bryant who renamed it St Piran's. It reopened in 1920 with 23 boys, increasing to 65 the following year. [2]
After becoming an educational trust in 1972, the school became co-educational in 1993, and boarding ended the same year. [2] In 2005, St. Piran's celebrated its 200th anniversary with a bicentennial pageant. In 2008 a new geography room and lower school hall were completed.
To date [update] , the headmasters of the school have been: [2]
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