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Public schools are elite institutions and are associated with the ruling class. [6][7][8] Historically, public schools produced many of the military officers and administrators of the British Empire. [9][10] In 2019, two-thirds of cabinet ministers of the United Kingdom had been educated at such fee-charging schools. [11]
Eton College (/ ˈ iː t ən / ⓘ EE-tən) [3] is a 13–18 public fee-charging and boarding secondary school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, England.It is noted for having educated prime ministers, world leaders, Nobel laureates, Academy Award and BAFTA award-winning actors, and generations of the aristocracy, having been referred to as "the nurse of England's statesmen". [4]
The King's School, Ottery St Mary (1335, refounded 1545) Bablake School (1344) St George's School, Windsor Castle (1348) Doncaster Grammar School now Hall Cross School, (first record of existence 1350) Beauchamp College (first record of existence 1359)
Winchester College is an English public school (a long-established fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) with some provision for day attendees, 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.
Each year since 2008, Times Higher Education has compiled a "Table of Tables" to combine the results of the 3 mainstream league tables. In the 2022 table, the top 5 universities were the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of St Andrews, the London School of Economics and Imperial College.
Westminster was the 13th most expensive HMC day school and tenth most expensive HMC boarding school in the UK in 2014/2015 [75] It achieved the highest percentage of students accepted by Oxbridge colleges over the period 2002–2006, [76] and was ranked as best boys' school in the country in terms of GCSE results in 2017. [77]
www.harrowschool.org.uk. Harrow School (/ ˈhæroʊ /) [1] is a public school (English boarding school for boys) in Harrow on the Hill, Greater London, England. [2] The school was founded in 1572 by John Lyon, a local landowner and farmer, under a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth I. The school has an enrolment of about 820 boys, all of whom ...
charterhouse.org.uk. Charterhouse is a public school (English privately-owned boarding school for pupils aged 13–18) in Godalming, Surrey, England. Originally founded by Thomas Sutton in 1611 on the site of the old Carthusian monastery in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London, it educates over 800 pupils, aged 13 to 18 years.