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List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom is a list of the earliest established schools in the predecessor states to what is now the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The dates refer to the foundation or the earliest documented contemporary reference to the school.








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List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom is a list of the earliest established schools in the predecessor states to what is now the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. The dates refer to the foundation or the earliest documented contemporary reference to the school.

England and Wales

The Kingdom of England
Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England was, from 927 to 1707, a state in North-West Europe. The Kingdom of England spanned the southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain and a number of smaller outlying islands?what is today the legal unit of England and Wales....
 (including Wales
Wales

native_name = Cymru|conventional_long_name = Wales|common_name = Wales|image_flag = Flag of Wales 2.svg|national_motto = ...
) and its predecessor states.

Former (non-extant) schools

  • Cor Tewdws
    Cor Tewdws

    Cor Tewdws , Llantwit Major, reputedly burnt down in AD 446, was refounded, after 62 years, by Illtud in 508 and flourished into the 13th Century....
     (College of Theodosius), Llantwit Major
    Llantwit Major

    Llantwit Major . Welsh language: Llanilltud Fawr -- llan church enclosure + Illtud + mawr great) is a small coastal town and community in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, lying on the Bristol Channel coast....
     (446
    446

    Events...
     - closed down in reign of Henry VIII
    Henry VIII of England

    Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lordship of Ireland and claimant to the Early Modern France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII of England....
    )
  • Cirencester Grammar School
    Cirencester Grammar School

    Cirencester Grammar School was a school in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England.The school was founded in 1461 and had a history of over 500 years, finally closing in July 1966 as part of a government reorganisation in education....
     (1461) - closed in 1966
  • Douai School
    Douai School

    Douai School was the public school school that was run by the Douai Abbey Benedictine community at Woolhampton, England, until it closed in 1999....
     (1615) - closed down in 1999
  • Midhurst Grammar School
    Midhurst Grammar School

    Midhurst Grammar School was a Comprehensive school upper school in Midhurst, West Sussex. It served pupils aged 13 to 18 who usually joined the school from one of the local Middle school....
     (1672) - closed down in 2008


Extant schools


Sixth century
  • The King's School, Canterbury
    The King's School, Canterbury

    The King's School is an United Kingdom independent school situated in Canterbury, Kent. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Eton Group....
     (597
    597

    Events...
    )


Seventh century
  • The King's School, Rochester
    The King's School, Rochester

    The King's School, Rochester is a public school in Rochester, Kent, Kent. It is a cathedral school, and being part of the foundation of Rochester Cathedral, the Dean of Rochester Cathedral serves as the chair of the school's governing body....
     (604
    604

    Events...
    )
  • St Peter's School, York
    St Peter's School, York

    St Peter's School is one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom, founded in the England City of York by St Paulinus of York in 627.An early headmaster Alcuin , went on to be Chancellor to the Emperor Charlemagne, and founded several of the earliest schools in mainland Europe....
     (627
    627

    Events...
    )
  • Royal Grammar School Worcester (685
    685

    Events...
    ), first conclusive evidence (1291) - RGS Worcester and The Alice Ottley School
    RGS Worcester and The Alice Ottley School

    See Royal Grammar School for the other schools with the name RGS.RGS Worcester and The Alice Ottley School is a coeducational, private, day school in Worcestershire, United Kingdom....
     (2007)


Eighth century
  • Beverley Grammar School
    Beverley Grammar School

    Beverley Grammar School is a boys' secondary school in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire. It was founded in about 700 AD/Common Era and is the oldest state school in England and the fourth oldest school overall in England....
     (700
    700

    Sorry, no overview for this topic
    )


Tenth century
  • The Pilgrims' School
    The Pilgrims' School

    The Pilgrims' School, Winchester, is a boys' Preparatory School - with a co-ed pre-prep extension - in the Cathedral Close in Winchester, Hampshire - an ancient capital of England....
     (c.900
    900

    Sorry, no overview for this topic
    )
  • Warwick School
    Warwick School

    Warwick School is an independent school for boys in Warwick, England, and is reputed to be the third-oldest surviving school in the country after King's School, Canterbury and St Peter's School, York....
     (904
    904

    Events...
    )
  • Wells Cathedral School
    Wells Cathedral School

    Wells Cathedral School is a Public school located in Wells, Somerset, England. The school is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in UK, along with Chetham's School of Music, the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Purcell School and St....
     (909
    909

    Events...
    )
  • St Albans School
    St Albans School (Hertfordshire)

    St Albans School is a Public School and a former Direct Grant Grammar school in St Albans, England. Founded in 948 by Abbot Wulsin, St Albans School is not only the oldest school in Hertfordshire but also one of the oldest in the United Kingdom and Europe....
     (948
    948

    Events...
    )
  • The King's School, Ely
    The King's School, Ely

    The King's School, Ely, is a coeducational independent day and boarding school in the small city of Ely, in Cambridgeshire, England. It was founded circa 970 making it one of the oldest schools in the world....
     (970
    970

    970 was a year in the 10th century....
    )


Eleventh century
  • Salisbury Cathedral School
    Salisbury Cathedral School

    Salisbury Cathedral School is a school located in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. It was founded in 1091 by Saint Osmund at Old Sarum. It was moved 150 years later to the newly built Salisbury Cathedral....
     (1091)
  • Norwich School
    Norwich School (educational institution)

    Norwich School in Norwich, Norfolk, England, previously King Edward VI?s Grammar School, is one of the oldest schools in the world, with a traceable history as far back as 1096....
     (1096)


Twelfth century
  • Reading School
    Reading School

    Reading School is a grammar school in the town of Reading, Berkshire, Berkshire, England. It is a single-sex school boys' school, which selects incoming students on the basis of examined ability, usually at age 11, with a few entrants at age 13 and 16....
     (1125)
  • Bristol Cathedral School
    Bristol Cathedral School

    Bristol Cathedral Choir School is an Academy in Bristol, England. It is situated next to the Cathedral itself, just outside the centre of the city....
     (1140)
  • Derby School
    Derby School

    Derby School was a school in Derby in the English Midlands. It had an almost continuous history of education of over eight centuries. For most of that time it was a grammar school for boys....
     (1160)
  • Westminster School
    Westminster School

    The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools, with the highest Oxbridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college....
     (1179)


Thirteenth century
  • Colchester Royal Grammar School
    Colchester Royal Grammar School

    See Royal Grammar School for the other schools with the name RGS.Colchester Royal Grammar School is a grammar school in Colchester, Essex, founded in AD 1206 and granted two Royal Charters by Henry VIII of England and by Elizabeth I of England ....
     (1206)
  • Lancaster Royal Grammar School
    Lancaster Royal Grammar School

    See Royal Grammar School for the other schools with the name RGS.Lancaster Royal Grammar School is a voluntary aided school, selective grammar school for boys in Lancaster, England, England....
     (1235)
  • Abingdon School
    Abingdon School

    Abingdon School is an independent school day and boarding school for boys in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire, previously known as Roysse's School....
     (1256 (possibly as old as 1100))
  • King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth
    King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth

    King Edward VI Grammar School is one of many Grammar schools in the United Kingdom. Students who wish to attend the school must take and pass a test called the Eleven Plus....
     (1276)
  • Ruthin School
    Ruthin School

    Ruthin School is one of the oldest public schools in the United Kingdom. Located on the outskirts of Ruthin, the county town of Denbighshire, the School is over seven hundred years old and has been co-educational since 1990....
     (1284)
  • Ipswich School
    Ipswich School

    Ipswich School is a co-educational independent school situated in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It was founded in its current form as The King's School, Ipswich by Thomas Wolsey in 1528....
     (1299)


Fourteenth century
  • Stamford School
    Stamford School

    Stamford School is an English public school situated in the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire. It has been a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 1920....
     (1309, re-endowed 1532)
  • Northallerton College
    Northallerton College

    Northallerton College was formerly known as Northallerton Grammar School, it was founded in 1323. Parts of the old school building can be seen adjacent to All Saints' Church near the north end of Northallerton High Street....
     (1323)
  • Hanley Castle School (1326)
  • Hull Grammar School
    Hull Grammar School

    Hull Grammar School was an independent school secondary school in Kingston upon Hull, England, founded in 1486 by Dr. John Alcock . The school merged with Hull High School to form Hull Collegiate School in 2005....
      (1330)
  • The King's School, Ottery St Mary (1335)
  • Bablake School
    Bablake School

    Bablake School is a public school founded in 1344 by Queen Isabella and located in Coventry, England. Bablake is part of the Coventry School Foundation with King Henry VIII School and Coventry Preparatory School....
     (1344)
  • Doncaster Grammar School / Hall Cross School (1350) (first record of existence)
  • New College School
    New College School

    New College School is an Independent school for boys in Oxford. It was founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham to provide for the education of 16 choristers for the chapel of New College, Oxford....
     (1379)
  • Wisbech Grammar School
    Wisbech Grammar School

    Wisbech Grammar School is an independent school in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire for ages five to 18. It was founded in 1379 by the Guild of the Holy Trinity and is therefore one of the oldest surviving schools in England....
     (1379)
  • Winchester College
    Winchester College

    Winchester College is a famous boys' independent school, set in the city of Winchester, Hampshire in Hampshire, England, once the ancient capital....
     (1382)
  • Hereford Cathedral School
    Hereford Cathedral School

    Hereford Cathedral School is an independent, co-educational day school, with around 520 pupils aged between the ages of 11 and 18. It has four houses, named Langford , Stuart , Somerset and Cornwall ....
     (pre 1384) (first record of existence)
  • Katharine Lady Berkeley's School
    Katharine Lady Berkeley's School

    Katharine Lady Berkeley's School is a state comprehensive school near Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, England, for ages 11 to 18. It was founded by Lady Berkeley for the use of six scholars in 1384 which makes it one of the oldest surviving schools in England, and the oldest state school in the country....
     (1384)
  • Penistone Grammar School
    Penistone Grammar School

    Penistone Grammar School is a comprehensive school and former grammar school in Penistone, in South Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1392 and its most notable alumnus is Nicholas Saunderson, the probable inventor of Bayes theorem, in the sixteenth century....
     (1392)


Fifteenth century
  • Chorister School
    Chorister School

    The Chorister School is a co-educational independent school for the 2 to 13 age range. It consists of a nursery , a pre-preparatory and Preparatory school day and boarding school in Durham, England....
     (c.1400)
  • Oswestry School
    Oswestry School

    Oswestry School is a co-educational independent school, located in the town of Oswestry, Shropshire, England. Founded in 1407 by David Holbache and his wife Gwenwhyvver Holbache, it is the second oldest non-church school in England....
     (1407)
  • Durham School
    Durham School

    Durham School is an independent British day and boarding school for girls and boys in Durham. It was founded by at least 1414 , and refounded by Henry VIII of England during the Protestant Reformation in 1541....
     (1414)
  • Royal Latin School
    Royal Latin School

    The Royal Latin School is a co-educational grammar school in Buckingham, England. It is a Education in England#Voluntary controlled schools school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18....
     (1423)
  • Sponne School
    Sponne School

    Sponne School is a Foundation status comprehensive school in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England.Part of the school was originally Towcester Grammar School, until Grammar schools were abolished in Northamptonshire....
     (1430)
  • Sevenoaks School
    Sevenoaks School

    Sevenoaks School is an England coeducational and independent school located in the town of Sevenoaks, Kent. It is the oldest secular school in the United Kingdom, dating back to 1432....
     (1432)
  • Eton College
    Eton College

    Eton College, also known as Eton, is a world-famous British independent school for boys, founded in 1440 by Henry VI of England. It was founded as the King's College of Our Lady of Eton beside Windsor....
     (1440)
  • City of London School
    City of London School

    The City of London School is a boys' independent school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls and of the co-educational City of London Freemen's School ....
     (1442)
  • St. Bartholomew's School
    St. Bartholomew's School

    St. Bartholomew's School is a co-educational comprehensive school founded in 1466 in Newbury, Berkshire, Berkshire in the United Kingdom. It accepts students aged 11-18 and currently has approximately 1,600 students on roll including a VI form of around 400....
      Newbury
    Newbury, Berkshire

    Newbury is a civil parish and the principal town in the west of the county of Berkshire in England. It is situated on the River Kennet and the Kennet and Avon Canal, and has a town centre containing many 17th century buildings....
     (1466)
  • Bromsgrove School
    Bromsgrove School

    Bromsgrove School, founded in 1553, is a co-educational independent school in the Worcestershire town of Bromsgrove, England....
     (1476) (first record of existence)
  • Magdalen College School, Oxford
    Magdalen College School, Oxford

    Magdalen College School is an public school for boys located by The Plain, Oxford in Oxford, England. It was founded as part of Magdalen College, Oxford by William Waynflete in 1480....
     (1480)
  • Stockport Grammar School
    Stockport Grammar School

    Stockport Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Stockport, England, founded in 1487 by the 1482 Lord Mayor of London Edmund Shaa....
     (1487)
  • Ermysted's Grammar School
    Ermysted's Grammar School

    Ermysted's Grammar School is a Local Education Authority-funded selective boys' Grammar School in Skipton, North Yorkshire teaching over 700 pupils....
     (1492) (first record of existence)
  • King Edward VI School, Lichfield (1495)
  • Loughborough Grammar School
    Loughborough Grammar School

    Loughborough Grammar School , founded in 1495 by Thomas Burton, is a selective, fee-paying, independent public school in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England....
     (1495)
  • Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster
    Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster

    Queen Elizabeth's School is a specialist Sports College situated just outside Wimborne Minster in Dorset. It has very close links with the Minster and was founded by the will of Lady Margaret Beaufort, the mother of Henry VII of England in 1497....
     (1497)


Sixteenth century
  • The King's School in Macclesfield (1502)
  • Bridgnorth Endowed School
    Bridgnorth endowed school

    Bridgnorth Endowed School is a co-educational secondary school in the market town of Bridgnorth in the rural county of Shropshire, England. The Endowed School is a state school and is a specialist Technology College....
     (1503)
  • St Paul's School (London) (1509)
  • Royal Grammar School, Guildford
    Royal Grammar School, Guildford

    See Royal Grammar School for the other schools with the name RGS.The Royal Grammar School is an independent school in Guildford, Surrey, England....
     (1509)
  • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn
    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn

    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School is a famous, selective co-educational independent school in Blackburn, Lancashire, founded in 1509 as a boys' school....
     (1509)
  • Giggleswick School
    Giggleswick School

    Giggleswick School is an Independent school co-educational boarding school in Giggleswick, near Settle, North Yorkshire, England....
    , North Yorkshire
    North Yorkshire

    North Yorkshire is a shire county or shire county, located in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England, and a ceremonial counties of England in that region and also partly in North East England....
     (c. 1512)
  • Wolverhampton Grammar School
    Wolverhampton Grammar School

    Wolverhampton Grammar School is a prestigious public school located in the city of Wolverhampton. It is a fee paying mixed sex day school which was founded in 1512 by Sir Stephen Jenyns, a master of the ancient guild of Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors, who was also Lord Mayor of London in the year of Henry VIII of England's coronation....
     (1512)
  • Lewes Old Grammar School
    Lewes Old Grammar School

    Lewes Old Grammar School in Lewes, East Sussex, is an independent co-educational day school accredited by the Independent Schools Council. Its current headmaster is Robert Blewitt....
     Lewes East Sussex (1512)
  • Nottingham High School
    Nottingham High School

    Nottingham High School is a United Kingdom independent fee-paying boys' public school situated about a mile north of Nottingham city centre. It has around 900 pupils from ages 11 to 18 and there is the adjoining Nottingham High Junior School catering for younger boys and, from September 2008, the Lovell House Infant School, meaning...
     (1513)
  • Pocklington School
    Pocklington School

    Pocklington School, is a public school in Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Pocklington School was founded in 1514 by John Dolman....
     (1514)
  • Manchester Grammar School
    Manchester Grammar School

    The Manchester Grammar School is an important independent school boys' school in Fallowfield, Manchester, England. Founded in the 16th century as a free grammar school, it continued on a site adjacent to Manchester parish church until 1930, when it moved to the present site....
     (1515)
  • Gillingham School
    Gillingham School

    Gillingham School is a comprehensive school situated in Gillingham, Dorset in North Dorset. Gillingham Grammar School can trace its foundation back to 1516, making it probably the oldest surviving school in Dorset....
     (1516)
  • Bolton School
    Bolton School

    Bolton School is an Independent school in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in the North West England of England....
     (1516)
  • Cranbrook School, Kent
    Cranbrook School, Kent

    Cranbrook School is a Coeducation boarding and day Grammar schools in the United Kingdom located in Cranbrook, Kent in South East England. Founded in 1518 for poor boys of the town, it received a charter from Queen Elizabeth I in 1574....
     (1518)
  • King's School, Bruton
    King's School, Bruton

    King's Bruton is an independent co-educational secondary school based in Bruton, Somerset, England. It was founded in 1519 and received royal foundation status around 30 years later in the reign of Edward VI of England....
     (1519)
  • Coleshill School (1520)
  • Taunton Grammar School
    Taunton Grammar School

    Taunton Grammar School, was an England educational institution in Taunton, Somerset. It was founded by Bishop Richard Foxe, in 1522, and remained in operation until 1870....
     (1522)
  • Royal Grammar School, Newcastle
    Royal Grammar School, Newcastle

    Royal Grammar School Newcastle upon Tyne, known locally as The RGS, is a long-established co-educational, independent school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England....
     (1525)
  • Sedbergh School
    Sedbergh School

    Sedbergh School is a boarding school in Sedbergh, Cumbria, for boys and girls aged 13 to 18. Nestled in the Howgill Fells, it is renowned for strong sporting sides, especially its Rugby Union 1st XV....
     (1525)
  • Bishop Vesey's Grammar School
    Bishop Vesey's Grammar School

    Bishop Vesey's Grammar School is a selective state grammar school in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. Founded in 1527, it is one of the List_of_the_oldest_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom#Sixteenth_century....
     (1527)
  • The King's School, Grantham
    The King's School, Grantham

    The King's School is an English educational institution in Grantham, Lincolnshire with an unbroken history on the same site since the date of its endowment as one of the last acts of Richard Foxe in 1528, although it can trace its lineage back as far as 1329 making it amongst the oldest in the country....
     (1528)
  • Bingley Grammar School
    Bingley Grammar School

    Bingley Grammar School is a school for both boys and girls from the ages of 11–18 and is located on the outskirts of Bingley, West Yorkshire, England....
     (1529)
  • Kimbolton School
    Kimbolton School

    Kimbolton School is a mixed independent school for children aged from 4 to 18 in the village of Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire, in rural Cambridgeshire....
     (1531)
  • Bristol Grammar School
    Bristol Grammar School

    Bristol Grammar School is a co-educational Independent school in Redland, Bristol, Bristol, England.It was founded in 1532 by two brothers, Robert Thorne and Nicholas Thorne, when it was housed in the St Bartholomew's Hospital, Bristol, as part of the new founding of schools after Henry VIII of England's closure of the monasteries, where p...
     (1532)
  • The Coopers Company and Coborn School, Upminster (1536)
  • The Crypt School, Gloucester
    The Crypt School, Gloucester

    The Crypt School is a Grammar schools in the United Kingdom for boys with a mixed Sixth Form, located in the city of Gloucester, England, founded in 1539 by John and Joan Cooke....
     (1539)
  • Berkhamsted Collegiate School
    Berkhamsted Collegiate School

    Berkhamsted School is a independent school in Hertfordshire, England, formed in 1997 by the amalgamation of the original Berkhamsted School, founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's, Berkhamsted School for Girls, established in 1888, and Berkhamsted Preparatory School....
     (1541)
  • Christ College, Brecon
    Christ College, Brecon

    Christ College, Brecon is a co-educational independent school boarding school and day school, located in the market town of Brecon, mid Wales....
     (1541)
  • The King's School, Chester
    The King's School, Chester

    The King's School, Chester is a coeducational independent school in Chester, England. It is one of The King's School established, or in some cases re-endowed and renamed, by King Henry VIII of England in 1541 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries for the education of 'poor friendless boys'....
     (1541)
  • The King's School, Gloucester
    The King's School, Gloucester

    The King's School, Gloucester is an independent school in the United Kingdom, taking students from the ages of 3-18, with around 500 students....
     (1541) (Dates from 11th century
    11th century

    As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century is the period from 1001 to 1100 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era/Common Era....
    )
  • The King's School, Peterborough
    The King's School, Peterborough

    The King's School, Peterborough is a Voluntary Aided Church of England Comprehensive school secondary school in Peterborough, England. It is one of seven schools established, or in some cases re-endowed and renamed, by King Henry VIII of England in 1541 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries for the education of "poor boys"....
     (1541)
  • The King's School, Worcester
    The King's School, Worcester

    The King's School, Worcester is a British independent school refounded by Henry VIII of England in 1541. It occupies a site by Worcester Cathedral and the River Severn....
     (1541)
  • Northampton Grammar School (1541) – later renamed to Northampton School for Boys
    Northampton School For Boys

    Northampton School for Boys is a secondary school in Northampton, England....
  • Dauntsey's School
    Dauntsey's School

    Dauntsey's School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school in the village of West Lavington, Wiltshire, Wiltshire, South West England England....
     (1542)
  • Colyton Grammar School
    Colyton Grammar School

    Colyton Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school located in the small town of Colyford in East Devon and teaches students from years 7 to 13 ....
     (1546)
  • Bradford Grammar School
    Bradford Grammar School

    Bradford Grammar School is an Independent school#UK, co-educational, public school in Frizinghall, West Yorkshire. Headmaster, Stephen Davidson is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference ....
     (1548)
  • Maidstone Grammar School
    Maidstone Grammar School

    Maidstone Grammar School is a Grammar school located in Maidstone, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1549. The school takes boys at the age of 11 and over by 11 plus and boys and girls at 16+ on their GCSE results....
     (1549)
  • King Edward Grammar School, Bury St. Edmunds
    King Edward Grammar School

    King Edward Grammar School is a secondary school in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England.The School accepts Students from ages 14 to 18, it is attended by 1305 pupils....
     (1550)
  • Sherborne School
    Sherborne School

    Sherborne School is a British independent school for boys, located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. It is one of the original member schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....
     (1550)
  • King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford)
    King Edward VI Grammar School (Chelmsford)

    King Edward VI Grammar School, or KEGS, is a Great Britain grammar school located in the town of Chelmsford. It takes pupils between the ages of 11 and 18 ? from Year 7 to 11 the pupils are exclusively male, although it becomes mixed in the sixth form ....
     (1551)
  • King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth
    King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth

    King Edward VI Grammar School is one of many Grammar schools in the United Kingdom. Students who wish to attend the school must take and pass a test called the Eleven Plus....
     (1551) (possibly 1276)
  • Bedford School
    Bedford School

    Bedford School is not to be confused with Bedford Modern School or Bedford High School .Bedford School is a independent school for boys in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England and one of five run by the Harpur Trust....
     (1552)
  • King Edward's School, Bath
    King Edward's School, Bath

    King Edward's School , Bath, Somerset in South-West England is an Independent School providing education for pupils aged 3 - 18. It regularly tops the tables of Bath schools for Advanced Level and GCSE examination results....
     (1552)
  • King Edward's School, Birmingham
    King Edward's School, Birmingham

    King Edward's School is an independent school secondary school in Birmingham, England, founded by Edward VI of England in 1552. It is part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI, and is widely regarded as one of the most academically successful schools in the country, according to various league tables....
     (1552)
  • King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge (1552) (formerly chantry school 1430) (became Sixth Form College 1992)
  • Leeds Grammar School
    Leeds Grammar School

    Leeds Grammar School is an independent school in Leeds established in 1552. In August 2005 it merged with Leeds Girls' High School to form The Grammar School at Leeds....
     (1552)
  • Shrewsbury School
    Shrewsbury School

    Shrewsbury School is a Independent School located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Shropshire, England. It is one of the original nine English public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868, and is now a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....
     (1552)
  • Hutton Grammar School
    Hutton Grammar School

    Hutton Grammar School is a Church of England Voluntary Aided Secondary Comprehensive School in Preston, Lancashire, England. It is a day school for boys-only for ages of 11 through to 16, while the Sixth Form contains both boys and girls....
     (1552)
  • Christ's Hospital
    Christ's Hospital

    Christ's Hospital is a full board coeducational boarding school located in the countryside just south of Horsham, West Sussex, England. The school was originally founded in the 16th century in Christ Church Greyfriars, London and Hertford....
     (1553)
  • King Edward's School, Witley
    King Edward's School, Witley

    King Edward's School, Witley is an Independent school coeducation boarding and day school, founded in 1553 by Edward VI of England and Nicholas Ridley ....
     (1553)
  • King Edward VI School, Southampton
    King Edward VI School, Southampton

    King Edward VI School, often referred to as King Edward's or simply KES, is a selective Independent School located in Southampton, United Kingdom and is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....
     (1553)
  • King Edward VI School Stratford-upon-Avon
    King Edward VI School Stratford-upon-Avon

    King Edward VI School is a single sex grammar school in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. The poet and playwright William Shakespeare may have attended KES , leading to the label of "Shakespeare's School."...
     (1553)
  • Tonbridge School
    Tonbridge School

    Tonbridge School is a major United Kingdom public school in Tonbridge, founded in 1553 by Sir Andrew Judde. It is a member of the Eton Group, and has close links with the Worshipful Company of Skinners, one of the oldest of the London livery companies....
     (1553)
  • Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
    Clitheroe Royal Grammar School

    See Royal Grammar School for the other schools with the name RGS.Clitheroe Royal Grammar School is a Secondary education in Clitheroe, Lancashire that used to be an all boys school....
     (1554)
  • Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall (1554)
  • Boston Grammar School
    Boston Grammar School

    Boston Grammar School is a Grammar school and sixth form college for boys aged 11 to 18 located in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. However, in recent years girls have been admitted to the sixth form for the first time....
     (1555)
  • Gresham's School
    Gresham's School

    Gresham?s School is a Independent school coeducational boarding school at Holt, Norfolk in North Norfolk, England, a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....
     (1555)
  • Ripon Grammar School
    Ripon Grammar School

    Ripon Grammar School is a co-educational, selective, state secondary grammar school and Specialist school Engineering College located in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England....
     (1555)
  • Hampton School
    Hampton School

    Hampton School is a selective independent school, formerly direct grant, day school for boys, located in Hampton, London, England.The Good Schools Guide called the school "A super outward-looking school keen to preserve its strengths , but ready to embrace change if it will further educational achievement."...
     (1556)
  • Oundle School
    Oundle School

    Oundle School is a premier Independent school located in the ancient market town of Oundle in Northamptonshire, England. The school has been maintained by the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London since its foundation in 1556, making it one of the oldest surviving public schools in the country....
     (1556)
  • Brentwood School
    Brentwood School

    Brentwood School is the name of some notable schools:*Brentwood College School, Mill Bay, British Columbia, Canada*Brentwood School , Essex, UK...
     (1557)
  • Friars School, Bangor
    Friars School, Bangor

    Ysgol Friars is a comprehensive school in Bangor, Gwynedd, and one of the oldest schools in Wales....
     (1557)
  • Repton School
    Repton School

    Repton School, founded in 1557, is a British independent Public school#England.2C Wales.2C .26 Northern Ireland located in the village of Repton, in Derbyshire, England....
     (1557)
  • Enfield Grammar School
    Enfield Grammar School

    Enfield Grammar School is a boys' comprehensive school in Enfield Town in the London Borough of Enfield in north London....
     (1558)
  • Alleyne's High School
    Alleyne's High School

    Alleyne's High School is a co-educational community comprehensive school in Stone, Staffordshire, and one of three schools founded in 1558 by the Reverend Thomas Alleyne....
    , Stone, Staffordshire (1558)
  • The Thomas Alleyne School
    The Thomas Alleyne School

    The Thomas Alleyne School is a secondary school in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. It is one of three schools founded in 1558 from the will of Thomas Alleyne....
    , Stevenage, Hertfordshire (1558)
  • Thomas Alleyne's High School
    Thomas Alleyne's High School

    Thomas Alleyne's High School is a secondary school in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England. It is one of three schools founded in 1558 from the will of Thomas Alleyne....
    , Uttoxeter, Staffordshire. (1558)
  • Solihull School
    Solihull School

    Solihull School is a British Independent school situated near the centre of Solihull, West Midlands , England and it dates back to 1560.It has approximately 990 day pupils, of whom 280 are in the Sixth Form and 160 are in the Junior School....
     (1560)
  • Kingston Grammar School
    Kingston Grammar School

    Kingston Grammar School is an independent and highly selective co-educational school in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London. It is noteworthy for being able to trace its roots back to at least the 13th century....
     (1561)
  • Merchant Taylors' School
    Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood

    Merchant Taylors' School is a United Kingdom boys' independent school, day school, originally located in the City of London, and since 1933 located at Sandy Lodge in the Three Rivers district of Hertfordshire ....
     (1561)
  • Sir Roger Manwood's School
    Sir Roger Manwood's School

    InformationSir Roger Manwood's School is a Grammar school foundation school located in Sandwich, Kent, England, the 96th oldest school in the UK....
     (1563)
  • Felsted School
    Felsted School

    Felsted is a Public School situated in the village of Felsted, England. It was founded in 1564 by Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich who, as Lord Chancellor and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, acquired considerable wealth from the spoils of the Dissolution of the Monasteries including the adjoining priory of Little Leez ....
     (1564)
  • Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
    Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe

    See Royal Grammar School for the other schools with the name RGS.The Royal Grammar School is a Debates on the grammar school grammar school situated in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England....
     (1564)
  • Highgate School
    Highgate School

    Sir Roger Cholmeley's School at Highgate is a British Independent School in Highgate, London, England. It is a member of both the Headmaster's Conference and the Eton Group....
     (1565)
  • John Beddoes School
    John Beddoes School

    John Beddoes School is a Secondary or Comprehensive school for boys and girls. The school is based on one site in the town of Presteigne. It has a complement of approximately 580 pupils aged 11 ? 18 years....
     (1565)
  • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford
    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford

    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Alford is a Selective school#United Kingdom, Coeducation, Foundation school Grammar School and Sixth Form College in Alford, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England....
     (1566)
  • Rugby School
    Rugby School

    Rugby School, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, Warwickshire, is regarded as one of the UK's leading co-educational boarding school and is one of the oldest public school in England....
     (1567)
  • Brentwood School (1568)
  • Colfe's School
    Colfe's School

    Colfe?s is a co-educational Independent school day school in Lee, London and within the London Borough of Greenwich. The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference....
     (1568) refounded (1652)
  • St Edmund's College (1568)
  • Bury Grammar School
    Bury Grammar School

    Bury Grammar School is an Independent school grammar school in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, that has existed since c.1570. The current boys' head master is the Very Reverend Steven Harvey MA....
     (1570)
  • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle
    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle

    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, is a Selective school#United Kingdom, Coeducation, Foundation school Grammar School and Sixth Form College in the Market town of Horncastle, Lincolnshire, England....
     (1571)
  • St Olave's Grammar School
    St Olave's Grammar School

    St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School for Boys is a grammar school boys' secondary school in Orpington, Kent, England. The school is consistently one of the top achieving state schools in the UK and it was The Sunday Times state school of the year in 2008....
     (1571)
  • Harrow School
    Harrow School

    Harrow School, commonly known as "Harrow", is a world-famous boys' independent school in United Kingdom. Harrow has educated boys since 1243 but was officially founded by John Lyon under a Royal Charter of Elizabeth I in 1572....
     (1572)
  • Netherthorpe School
    Netherthorpe School

    Netherthorpe School is a secondary school designated science college status that is based in the town of Staveley, Derbyshire in the Chesterfield district of Derbyshire....
     (1572)
  • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Barnet (1573)
  • Appleby Grammar School (charter granted by Elizabeth I in 1574)
  • Dartford Grammar School
    Dartford Grammar School

    Dartford Grammar School is a selective secondary foundation school for boys in Dartford, Kent, England, which admits girls to its sixth form . All of the students joining the school are from the top 25% of the ability range....
     (1576)
  • Pate's Grammar School
    Pate's Grammar School

    Pate's Grammar School is a voluntary aided school, selective Grammar schools in the United Kingdom in the Hesters Way area of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England catering for pupils aged 11 to 18....
     (1576)
  • Sutton Valence School
    Sutton Valence School

    Sutton Valence School is a private school near Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom. It contains around 540 pupils. It has an excellent reputation for sport, music, art, drama, as well as superb academic results in GCSEs and A-Levels....
     (1576)
  • Woodbridge School
    Woodbridge School

    Woodbridge School is an independent school in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, founded in 1577, for the poor of Woodbridge. It was later supported by the Seckford Trust....
     (1577)
  • The Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School (1580) (possibly 1565)
  • St. Bees School
    St. Bees School

    St. Bees School is a co-educational public school in the Cumbria village of St Bees. Founded in 1583 by the then Archbishop of Canterbury Edmund Grindal as a boys' "free grammar school", today it is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference with around 300 pupils aged 11 to 18....
     (1583)
  • Oakham School
    Oakham School

    Oakham School is an English public school in the market town of Oakham in Rutland, accepting around 1,000 students, aged from 10 to 18, both male and female, as boarders and day pupils ....
     (1584)
  • Uppingham School
    Uppingham School

    Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school situated in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland, England.The school's current Headmaster, Richard Harman MA, is a member of the Headmasters Conference and the school is a member of the Rugby Group of independent school in the United Kingdom....
     (1584)
  • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne
    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne

    Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School is a comprehensive school for 11-18 year olds, situated in the town of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Derbyshire. In the academic year 2005-2006, there were 1337 pupils on roll....
     (1585)
  • Newport Free Grammar School
    Newport Free Grammar School

    Newport Free Grammar School, in Newport, Essex, Essex, England was founded in 1588. The school is a mixed comprehensive school with a sixth form....
     (1588)
  • Spalding Grammar School
    Spalding Grammar School

    Spalding Grammar School, or as it is fully known The Queen Elizabeth Royal Free Grammar School Spalding , is a selective school on Spalding Priory in Spalding, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire for pupils aged 11-18....
     (1588)
  • Queen Elizabeth's High School
    Queen Elizabeth's High School

    Queen Elizabeth's High School is an 11-18 co-educational grammar school, based in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire in northern Lincolnshire. It is well known within the local area as an institution of extremely high academic excellence....
     (1589)
  • Conyers' School
    Conyers' School

    Conyers School is a co-educational comprehensive school and sixth-form in the town of Yarm, England. It is run by Stockton-on-Tees borough council....
     (1590)
  • Queen Elizabeth's Hospital
    Queen Elizabeth's Hospital

    Queen Elizabeth's Hospital is an independent school for boys in Clifton, Bristol, Bristol, England. Stephen Holliday has served as Headmaster since 2000, having succeeded Dr Richard Gliddon....
     (1590)
  • Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield
    Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield

    Queen Elizabeth Grammar School is an independent fee-paying school in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. QEGS is distinct from most other schools in that it was founded by Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1591 at the request of leading citizens in Wakefield 75 in total and some of whom formed the first governing body....
     (1591)
  • Stonyhurst College
    Stonyhurst College

    Stonyhurst College is an Headmasters Conference, Roman Catholic school in the Society of Jesus tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst near Clitheroe in rural Lancashire, England, where it occupies a Grade I listed building....
     (1593)
  • Emanuel School
    Emanuel School

    Emanuel School is a co-educational Independent school in Battersea, south-west London. The school was founded by Lady Dacre and Elizabeth I in 1594 and today has an enrolment of approximately 720 students, aged between ten and eighteen....
     (1594)
  • Wellingborough School
    Wellingborough School

    Wellingborough School is an independent fee-paying day school situated in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England. It has been in continuous existence since 1595, making it one of List_of_the_oldest_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom#Sixteenth_century....
     (1595)
  • Whitgift School
    Whitgift School

    Whitgift School is an independent day school educating approximately 1,200 boys aged 10 to 18 in South Croydon, London in a parkland site....
     (1596)
  • Aldenham School
    Aldenham School

    Aldenham School is a independent school and preparatory school located in Hertfordshire, England, near the village of Aldenham....
     (1597)
  • Aylesbury Grammar School
    Aylesbury Grammar School

    Aylesbury Grammar School is a single-sex male grammar school in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, which educates 1,250 pupils. As a selective state school, its entry requirements are dictated by the Eleven plus taken at the age of 10-11....
     (1598)


Seventeenth century
  • Ysgol David Hughes
    Ysgol David Hughes

    Ysgol David Hughes is the largest Secondary School in Anglesey, Wales. It was founded in 1603, originally as a free Grammar School in Beaumaris....
     (1603)
  • King James's School
    King James's School

    King James's School is located on King James Road, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England and is regarded as one of the best in the area, scoring well on league tables....
     (1604)
  • Blundell's School
    Blundell's School

    Blundell's School is a public school located in Tiverton, Devon in the county of Devon, England. It was founded by the will of Peter Blundell in 1604, one of the richest men in England at the time, and relocated to its present location on the outskirts of town in 1882....
     (1604)
  • Carre's Grammar School
    Carre's Grammar School

    Carre's Grammar School is selective school and specialist Sports College located in the market town of Sleaford, in Lincolnshire, England. It was founded in 1604 by Sir Robert Carre....
     (1604)
  • Downside School
    Downside School

    Downside School is a Roman Catholic Public school in Stratton-on-the-Fosse near Bath, Somerset, situated next to Downside Abbey....
     (1606)
  • Marlwood School
    Marlwood School

    Marlwood School is a comprehensive secondary school located in Alveston, South Gloucestershire, just north of Bristol....
     (1606)
  • Paston College
    Paston College

    Paston College is a sixth form college in North Walsham, Norfolk, EnglandPaston College is one of only two sixth form colleges in Norfolk and around 100 nationally....
     (1606)
  • Ilkley Grammar School
    Ilkley Grammar School

    Ilkley Grammar School is a co-educational comprehensive school in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, England, that specialises in humanities and sciences....
     (1607)
  • The Royal School, Armagh
    The Royal School, Armagh

    The Royal School, Armagh is a co-educational voluntary grammar school in the city of Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was one of a number of 'free schools' created by James I of England in 1608 to provide an education to the sons of local merchants and farmers during the plantation of Ulster....
     (1608)
  • Charterhouse School
    Charterhouse School

    Charterhouse, originally The Hospital of King James and Thomas Sutton in London Charterhouse, then Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse before Charterhouse School or more simply Charterhouse is a boys' independent school school between Hurtmore and Godalming in Surrey, England....
     (1611)
  • Batley Grammar School
    Batley Grammar School

    Batley Grammar School is a co-educational independent school located at Carlinghow Hill in Upper Batley, West Yorkshire, England. The school was founded in 1612 by the Rev....
     (1612)
  • Dame Alice Owen's School
    Dame Alice Owen's School

    Dame Alice Owen's School is a mixed voluntary aided school secondary school in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England, founded in the London Borough of Islington....
     (1613)
  • Heversham School
    Dallam School

    Dallam School is a mixed, 11-18 secondary school in Milnthorpe, Cumbria, England. The school holds specialist Language College status. ...
     (1613)
  • Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
    Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School

    The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School or HABS, as it is commonly known as by the public, is a United Kingdom Independent school in Elstree, near Borehamwood, in Hertfordshire....
     (1614)
  • Monmouth School
    Monmouth School

    Monmouth School is a HMC public school Single-sex education in Monmouth, Monmouthshire in south east Wales. It is run under trust by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, one of the Livery Companies....
     (1614)
  • Royal School Dungannon
    Royal School Dungannon

    The Royal School is a school located in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It was one of a number of 'free schools' created by James I of England in 1608 to provide an education to the sons of local merchants and farmers during the plantation of Ulster....
     (1614)
  • The Perse School
    The Perse School

    The Perse School is a fee-paying secondary day school for boys 11–18 and girls at 16+ situated in Cambridge, England. The school was founded in 1615 by Dr Stephen Perse, a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and has existed on several different sites in the city before its present home on Hills Road....
     (1615)
  • Wilson's School
    Wilson's School

    Wilson's School is a boys' grammar school in Wallington, London, in the London Borough of Sutton, UK. Admission is based on performance in an entrance test with around 1,000 pupils being taught there....
     (1615)
  • Foyle and Londonderry College
    Foyle and Londonderry College

    Foyle and Londonderry College is a co-educational voluntary grammar school in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. It is named after the two schools that merged in 1976 by virtue of the Foyle and Londonderry College Act 1976 ....
     (1617)
  • Portora Royal School
    Portora Royal School

    Portora Royal School for boys, located in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, is one of a number of 'free schools' founded by Royal Charter in 1608, by James I of England....
     (1618)
  • William Parker School (1619)
  • Alleyn's School
    Alleyn's School

    Alleyn's School is an Independent school , fee-paying co-educational day school situated in Dulwich, South-East London. It was part of the historic Alleyn's College charitable foundation, which also included James Allen's Girls' School , Dulwich College and as well as their daughter schools ....
     (1619)
  • Dulwich College
    Dulwich College

    Dulwich College is a selective independent school for boys in Dulwich, a suburb of south-east London, United Kingdom. The College was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan era actor, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the foundation of "God's Gift"....
     (1619)
  • Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby
    Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby

    'Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby' is a United Kingdom Independent school, located in Great Crosby on Merseyside.The school's motto is that of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors: Concordia Parvae Res Crescunt. ...
     (1620)
  • Dr Challoner's Grammar School
    Dr Challoner's Grammar School

    Dr Challoner's Grammar School, abbreviated to DCGS, is a Foundation_school grammar school of approximately 1,285 boys located in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England....
     (1624)
  • The Latymer School
    The Latymer School

    The Latymer School is a selective, Coeducation grammar school in Edmonton, London, north London, England. The school underwent its most recent OFSTED inspection in 2008, receiving inspection grades of 'Outstanding' for both school and sixth form....
     (1624)
  • Latymer Upper School
    Latymer Upper School

    Latymer Upper School, founded by Edward Latymer in 1624, is a selective Independent School in Hammersmith, west London, lying between King Street and the Thames....
     (1624)
  • Chigwell School
    Chigwell School

    Chigwell School is an English co-education public school in Chigwell, in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It was founded in 1629 by Samuel Harsnett, a former Archbishop of York ....
     (1629)
  • Caistor Grammar School
    Caistor Grammar School

    Caistor Grammar School is a selective school in the England town of Caistor in the county of Lincolnshire. It was founded in 1630 and has since grown to be one of the area's most respected schools....
     (1630)
  • The Norton Knatchbull School
    The Norton Knatchbull School

    The Norton Knatchbull School is a secondary school for boys located in Ashford, Kent, Kent, England. Girls are accepted into the Sixth Form. As of 2008, the school serves more than one thousand students aged 11 to 18....
     (1630)
  • Exeter School
    Exeter School

    Exeter School is a selective Independent school co-educational day school for children between the ages of 7 and 18 located in Exeter, Devon, England....
     (1633)
  • Red Maids' School
    Red Maids' School

    The Red Maids' School is an Independent school in Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol.Red Maids school was founded in 1634 from the bequest of John Whitson, Mayor and MP of Bristol, making it the oldest surviving girls' school in England....
     (1634), all girls
  • Calday Grange Grammar School
    Calday Grange Grammar School

    Calday Grange Grammar School is a non-denominational selective Grammar schools in the United Kingdom, founded in 1636, which is situated on Caldy Hill above the town of West Kirby on the Wirral Peninsula....
     (1636)
  • Dunoon Grammar School
    Dunoon Grammar School

    Dunoon Grammar School is a secondary school in Dunoon, Argyll, Scotland. It was established in 1641.It is a non-denominational comprehensive school which covers all stages from S1 to S6 ....
     (1641)
  • The King's School (1642), Westminster City School
    Westminster City School

    Westminster City School is an all-boys, Voluntary Aided Christian school in City of Westminster, a borough of London. The school has 800 students on roll, and it offers 105 of 130 places each year to boys practising the Christian faith in the Anglican dioceses of London and Southwark....
     Formed and refounded in 1877
  • Cheam School
    Cheam School

    Cheam School is a preparatory school in Headley in the civil parish of Ashford Hill with Headley in the England county of Hampshire. It was founded in 1645 by the Reverend George Aldrich in Cheam, Surrey and has been educating ever since....
     (1645)
  • The Palmers School (1645), Westminster City School
    Westminster City School

    Westminster City School is an all-boys, Voluntary Aided Christian school in City of Westminster, a borough of London. The school has 800 students on roll, and it offers 105 of 130 places each year to boys practising the Christian faith in the Anglican dioceses of London and Southwark....
     Formed and refounded in 1877
  • The Emery Hill School (1647), Westminster City School
    Westminster City School

    Westminster City School is an all-boys, Voluntary Aided Christian school in City of Westminster, a borough of London. The school has 800 students on roll, and it offers 105 of 130 places each year to boys practising the Christian faith in the Anglican dioceses of London and Southwark....
     Formed and refounded in 1877
  • Adams' Grammar School
    Adams' Grammar School

    Adams' Grammar School is a state grammar school in Newport, Shropshire, Shropshire. Its name is sometimes abbreviation to AGS, although more common ways of referring to the school are as 'Adams' or alternatively, 'The Grammar'....
     (1656)
  • Hele's School (1658), Formed 1658, moved site in 1937
  • The Maynard School (1658), all girls
  • Henry Box School
    Henry Box School

    The Henry Box School was established in 1660 by grocer Henry and Mary Box, and is a Comprehensive secondary school located in Witney, Oxfordshire, England....
     (1660)
  • Sir Thomas Rich's School
    Sir Thomas Rich's School

    Sir Thomas Rich's School is a grammar school for boys and girls in Longlevens, Gloucester. It is commonly known as "Tommy's"....
     (1666)
  • Old Swinford Hospital
    Old Swinford Hospital

    Old Swinford Hospital is a voluntary aided boys' boarding school in Oldswinford, Stourbridge, West Midlands , England that has been in continuous operation since the 17th century....
     (1667)
  • Brigg Grammar School (1669), Sir John Nelthorpe School
    Sir John Nelthorpe School

    The Sir John Nelthorpe School is a comprehensive school on Grammar School Road in Brigg, North Lincolnshire....
     since 1976.
  • The Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone
    Folkestone

    Folkestone is the principal town in the Shepway District of Kent, England. Its original site lay in a stream valley in the cliffs here; and its subsequent development was through fishing and its proximity to the Europe as a landing place and trading port....
     (1674)
  • Reigate Grammar School
    Reigate Grammar School

    Reigate Grammar School is an independent co-educational day school located in the Surrey town of Reigate. Intake is from 11 to 18, with the majority of its pupils entering at the age of 11, and others entering at 13 and 16....
     (1675)
  • Tenison's School, Lambeth (1685)
  • The Royal Hospital School (1694)


Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland
Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a state in North-West Europe which existed from 843 until 1707. It occupied the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shared a Anglo-Scottish border to the south with the Kingdom of England, with which it was united to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, under the terms of the Acts of Union 1707, in 170...
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Twelfth century
  • High School of Glasgow
    High School of Glasgow

    The High School of Glasgow is an independent school, co-educational day school school in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the List of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom in Scotland, and the twelfth oldest in the United Kingdom....
     (pre-1124)
  • Royal High School
    Royal High School (Edinburgh)

    The Royal High School of Edinburgh can trace its roots back to 1128, and is one of the oldest schools in Scotland. It is a co-educational state school comprehensive school, administered by the City of Edinburgh Council....
    , Edinburgh
    Edinburgh

    Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
     (1128)
  • Lanark Grammar School
    Lanark Grammar School

    Lanark Grammar School is a secondary school in Lanark, Scotland. It was founded in 1183, and celebrated its octocentenary in 1983, including a visit by Princess Anne....
     (1183)


Thirteenth century
  • Ayr Academy
    Ayr Academy

    Ayr Academy is a non-denominational secondary school situated in the centre of the town of Ayr in South Ayrshire. It is a comprehensive school for children from the ages of 11 to 18 from Ayr....
     (1233)
  • High School of Dundee
    High School of Dundee

    The High School of Dundee, informally Dundee High School, is one of Scotland's leading private, or independent schools, and the only such school in Dundee; its foundation is dated to 1239....
     (1239)


Fourteenth century

Fifteenth century
  • Aberdeen Grammar School
    Aberdeen Grammar School

    Aberdeen Grammar School, known to students as The Grammar or AGS, is a state school secondary school in the City of Aberdeen, Scotland....
     (1418) (possibly 1263)


Sixteenth century

Seventeenth century

Ireland and Northern Ireland

The Kingdom of Ireland
Kingdom of Ireland

The Kingdom of Ireland was the name given to the Irish state from 1541, by the Crown of Ireland Act 1542 of the Parliament of Ireland. It was based on the contested legitimacy of the right of conquest....
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Foyle and Londonderry College
Foyle and Londonderry College

Foyle and Londonderry College is a co-educational voluntary grammar school in the city of Derry, Northern Ireland. It is named after the two schools that merged in 1976 by virtue of the Foyle and Londonderry College Act 1976 ....
 (c.1617)

See also

  • The oldest independent schools in the UK
  • List of founders of English schools and colleges
  • List of the oldest schools in the world
    List of the oldest schools in the world

    This is a list of extant schools excluding universities and higher education establishments. The dates refer to the foundation or the earliest documented contemporary reference to the school....
  • Education in England
    Education in England

    Education in England is overseen by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills....
  • Education in Scotland
    Education in Scotland

    Scotland has a long history of universal provision of public education, and the Scottish education system is distinctly different from other parts of the United Kingdom....
  • Education in Wales
    Education in Wales

    Education in Wales differs in certain respects from the systems used elsewhere in the United Kingdom.A significant number of students all over Wales are educated either wholly or largely through the medium of Welsh language; lessons in the language are compulsory for all until the age of 16....
  • Education in Northern Ireland
    Education in Northern Ireland

    Education in Northern Ireland differs slightly from systems used elsewhere in the United Kingdom, though it is more similar to that used in England and Wales than it is to Scotland....