Grey College, Bloemfontein

Grey College Primary & Secondary Schools
Location
Bloemfontein, Free State South Africa
Information
Type	All-Boys Public School
Motto	NIHIL STABILE QUOD INFIDUM (Nothing is steadfast if it is not true.)
Established	1855
Headmaster	Deon Scheepers
Grades	0 - 12
Boarding Houses	Murray, Brill, Leith
Website	Grey College

Grey College is a public school for boys located in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa, one of the 23 elite, historically significant and prestigious Milner Schools. Grey College is not to be confused with Grey High School in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape.

Grey College was ranked 1st out of the top 100 best high schools in Africa by Africa Almanac in 2003, based upon quality of education, student engagement, strength and activities of alumni, school profile, internet and news visibility.

Grey College was founded on 13 October 1855 when Sir George Grey, the then Governor of the Cape Colony, paid a visit to the Orange Free State Republic and donated a sum of money towards the establishment of an institution for higher education. The foundation stone was laid by Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, the second President of the Orange Free State Republic, on 13 October 1856.

The school was officially opened on 17 January 1859 and the first headmaster was the Reverend Andrew Murray. It is the third-oldest school in South Africa and the oldest north of the Orange River.

Afrikaans- and English-speaking pupils study under one roof, but each language group is educated in separate classrooms and in its own mother tongue.

The college first accepted matriculants for a full B.A. course in 1904. In 1906 the tertiary part of Grey College became known as the Grey University College (GUC), but shortly thereafter the school and college separated. GUC grew and evolved into the institution now called the University of the Free State.

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