Latymer Upper
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| Motto |
Latin: Paulatim ergo certe (Slowly Therefore Surely) |
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| Established | 1624 |
| Type | Independent day school |
| Headmaster | D W Goodhew |
| Location |
King Street Hammersmith London W6 9LR England |
| Local authority | Hammersmith and Fulham |
| DfE URN | 100370 Tables |
| Staff | 98 full time, 28 music staff |
| Students | 1,284 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Former pupils | Latymerians |
| Website | www.latymer-upper.org |
Latymer Upper School is a selective independent school in Hammersmith, west London, England, between King Street and the Thames. Founded by Edward Latymer in 1624, it is a coeducational school with over 1,200 pupils. It has a Prep department for pupils aged 7 to 11 and is one of the leading academic schools in the country, as measured by its position in the national league tables of GCSE and A level performance, and one of the top schools for the arts and sport. The Sixth Form of 340 is one of the largest in London and offers forty academic courses as well as extra curricular activities. According to the Good Schools Guide, the school "aims to set new standards for co-education in west London." As of 2016[update], the school charges fees of £19,260 a year per student.
Latymer Upper School was founded in 1624 by Edward Latymer, a wealthy lawyer and puritan, who left part of his wealth for the clothing and education of “eight poore boyes” from Hammersmith. For the next twenty years, local boys were educated in a school erected in Fulham's churchyard, moving in 1648 to another school built in Hammersmith. Later, in 1657, a parochial charity school was set up, which served as the Latymer legacy for the following century until it was rebuilt in 1755. A new facility was built on what is now King Street in Hammersmith in 1863, and was replaced in 1890 with a new building between King Street and the Thames. This structure persists to the present day as the core of the Upper School. The site also includes Latymer Prep School.
In the 1950s, the school was a direct grant grammar school, which took large numbers of state school pupils, whose fees were paid by the local authority, solely on the basis of merit. At the same time, it continued to take some fee-paying pupils. The Direct Grant system was abolished from 1975, and the school became fully private.
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