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Cranbrook School, Kent

Cranbrook School
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Cranbrook School
Established 1518 (1518)
Type Grammar school;
Academy
Headteacher John Weeds
Founder John Blubery
Location Waterloo Road
Cranbrook
Kent
TN17 3JD
England
Coordinates: 51°05′48″N 0°32′18″E / 51.0968°N 0.5382°E / 51.0968; 0.5382
DfE number 886/5416
DfE URN 137739 Tables
Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports
Gender Coeducational
Ages 13–18
Colours Maroon
Website www.cranbrookschool.co.uk

Cranbrook School is a co-educational grammar boarding and day school in the market town of Cranbrook, Kent, England.

Selection is made of pupils at age thirteen. The current Headmaster is John Weeds.

In 2003 alumnus Piers Sellers, a NASA astronaut, took a copy of the school charter into space with him. A photo is exhibited in the school cafeteria. In 2005 Sellers opened the school's observatory, which is named after him. This observatory houses the 22.5 inch Alan Young telescope operated by the Cranbrook and District Science and Astronomy Society (CADSAS). In May 2010 Sellers took into outer space aboard the Space Shuttle an original watercolour portrait of Cranbrook School painted by Brenda Barratt. The painting was later returned to Cranbrook School with the official NASA verification that it has travelled into space.

The school has six day houses and six boarding houses: four for boys and two for girls, each working in conjunction with the main school to provide pastoral care and academic support.


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