Winchester College is a public school with some provision for day pupils,in Winchester,Hampshire,England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 as a feeder school for New College,Oxford,and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of the nine schools considered by the Clarendon Commission. The school has begun a transition to become co-educational,and has accepted male and female day pupils from September 2022,having previously been a boys' boarding school for over 600 years.
Eton College is a public school in Eton,Berkshire,England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore,making it the 18th-oldest school in the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). Originally intended as a sister institution to King's College,Cambridge,Eton is particularly well known for its history,wealth,and notable alumni.
Westminster School is a public school in Westminster,London,England,in the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It descends from a charity school founded by Westminster Benedictines before the Norman Conquest,as documented by the Croyland Chronicle and a charter of King Offa. Continuous existence is clear from the early 14th century. Its academic results place it among the top schools nationally;about half its students go to Oxbridge,giving it the highest national Oxbridge acceptance rate. In the 2023 A-Levels,the school saw 82.3 of its candidates score A*/A.
St Paul's School is a selective independent day school for boys aged 13–18,founded in 1509 by John Colet and located on a 43-acre site by the Thames in London.
Clifton College is a public school in the city of Bristol in South West England,founded in 1862 and offering both boarding and day school for pupils aged 13–18. In its early years,unlike most contemporary public schools,it emphasised science rather than classics in the curriculum,and was less concerned with social elitism,e.g. by admitting day-boys on equal terms and providing a dedicated boarding house for Jewish boys,called Polack's House. Having linked its General Studies classes with Badminton School,it admitted girls to every year group in 1987 and was the first of the traditional,boys,public schools to become fully coeducational. Polack's House closed in 2005 but a scholarship fund open to Jewish candidates still exists. Clifton College is one of the original 26 English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Yearbook of 1889.
University College School,generally known as UCS,is an independent day school in Frognal,Hampstead,northwest London,England. The school was founded in 1830 by University College London and inherited many of that institution's progressive and secular views.
Sevenoaks School is a highly selective coeducational private school in Sevenoaks,Kent,England. It is the second oldest non-denominational school in the United Kingdom,dating back to 1432,only behind Oswestry (1407). Over 1,000 day pupils and boarders attend,ranging in age from 11 to 18 years. There are approximately equal numbers of boys and girls. In 2006 it became the first major UK school to switch entirely from A level exams to the International Baccalaureate. The school is a former member of the G20 Schools group.
Bradfield College,formally St Andrew's College,Bradfield,is a public school for pupils aged 13–18,located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire. It is noted for its open-air Greek theatre and its triennial Greek Play.
Michael William McCrum CBE was an English academic and ancient historian who served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge,Master of Corpus Christi College,Cambridge,and Head Master of Tonbridge School and Eton College.
Worth School is a private co-educational Roman Catholic boarding and day school for pupils from 11 to 18 years of age near Worth,West Sussex,England. Until 2008,Worth was exclusively a boys' school. The school is located within Worth Abbey,a Benedictine monastery,in 500 acres (2.0 km2) of Sussex countryside. It is one of the three prominent Benedictine independent boarding schools in the United Kingdom;the other two being Ampleforth and Downside. For the academic year 2015/16,Worth charged day pupils up to £7,275 per term,making it the 42nd most expensive HMC day school. It is a public school in the British sense of the term.
Bishop's Stortford College is a private boarding and day school in the English public school tradition for more than 1,200 pupils aged 4–18,situated in a 130-acre (0.53 km2) campus on the edge of the market town of Bishop's Stortford,Hertfordshire,England.
Clifton School (Durban) is an independent day school for boys in Durban,KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa.
Sussex House School,is a boys’preparatory school located in Chelsea,London. Founded in 1952,the school occupies a house designed by Norman Shaw at 68 Cadogan Square,and since 1994 has operated as an independent charitable trust. It typically has a roll of around 180 pupils.
St Leonards School is a private boarding and day school for pupils aged 4–19 in St Andrews,Fife,Scotland. Founded in 1877 as St Andrews School for Girls Company,it adopted the St Leonards name upon moving to its current premises,the site formerly occupied by the University of St Andrews’St Leonard's College,in 1883.
Caldicott Preparatory School is a prep school for boys aged 7–13 in southern Buckinghamshire,England.
The Old Cliftonian Society (OCS) is the Society for the alumni of Clifton College and organises regular reunions at the school and publishes a regular newsletter for alumni.
In England and Wales,a public school is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys. They are "public" in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective of locality,denomination or paternal trade or profession,nor are they run for the profit of a private owner.
Douglas Robert Kenneth Robb is an English schoolmaster who is currently headmaster of Gresham's School. Before that,he was a housemaster at Oundle School and then head of Oswestry School.
There have been many controversies concerning Eton College,sometimes called the most famous school in the world. In 2005,The Guardian claimed that "Eton is no stranger to scandalous allegations,nor to claims that it tries to prevent them leaking out."
