Gordon's School
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| Motto |
Semper Fidelis ("Always faithful") |
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| Established | 1885 |
| Type |
Voluntary aided academy Day and boarding school |
| Headmaster | Andrew Moss |
| Chair | Richard Whittington |
| Founder | by public subscription, at the express wish of Queen Victoria, as the National Memorial to General Gordon |
| Location |
West End Woking Surrey GU24 9PT England Coordinates: 51°20′37″N 0°38′47″W / 51.3435°N 0.6465°W |
| Local authority | Surrey |
| DfE URN | 139151 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 100(approx) |
| Students | 800 (approx.) (including Sixth Form - see age range below) |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | 5 Day and 5 Residential Boarding |
| Colours |
Green & Yellow |
| Affiliation | Gordon Foundation an independent charitable trust established in 1888 |
| Patron | Reigning Monarch of the United Kingdom |
| Website | www |
Green & Yellow
Gordon's School is a voluntary-aided secondary school with academy status in West End near Woking, Surrey, England. It was founded as the Gordon Boys' Home in 1885 by public subscription as a National Memorial to Gordon of Khartoum, an officer of the Corps of Royal Engineers, who was killed in 1885. The school website claims that the idea came from Queen Victoria, who was its first patron. The reigning monarch of the United Kingdom has been patron ever since. Its first commandant was Colonel Henry Tyndall, CB, 2nd Punjab Infantry and its first home was Fort Wallingford.
Gordon's began as a home for underprivileged boys, but it quickly became a boys' boarding school. In 1888, the Gordon Foundation was established as an independent charitable trust to administer the school. In 1990 the first girls were admitted. Gordon's is now a voluntary aided, comprehensive school for boys and girls, and the pupils are a mixture of full and weekly boarders (judged outstanding in all categories of boarding by Ofsted in 2013) and day boarders. Some two thirds of the pupils are day boys and girls.
Pupils are divided into ten houses named after places of particular relevance to General Gordon:
From 1997 - 2000, Gordon's was in the top twenty most improved schools list published by the government in its yearly school performance tables. Gordon's is the only school in Britain to have achieved this feat four years in a row.
From 1999 - 2016, Gordon's has been in the top twenty non-selective state schools in Britain in the yearly government league tables.
In 2016 Gordon’s was ranked the 2nd highest achieving non-selective school in England by the Daily Telegraph.
In the 2005 New Year's Honours List, the ex-headmaster Denis Mulkerrin was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for Services to Education.
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