Magdalen College School, Oxford
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| Motto |
Sicut Lilium (Like the Lily) |
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| Established | 1480 |
| Type | Independent day school |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Master | Ms Helen Pike |
| Usher | Toby Beaumont |
| Founder | William Waynflete |
| Location |
Cowley Place Oxford Oxfordshire OX4 1DZ England Coordinates: 51°44′57″N 1°14′39″W / 51.74903°N 1.24429°W |
| DfE URN | 123311 Tables |
| Staff | 160 (approx.) |
| Students | 925 |
| Gender | Boys; Coeducational Sixth Form |
| Ages | 7–18 |
| Houses | 6 Senior; 6 Junior |
| Colours | |
| Publications | The Lily, The Melting Pot, 155, The Magdalen Blazer, Views From The Bridge (Junior School) |
| Former pupils | Old Waynfletes (OWs) |
| Website | www |
Magdalen College School is an independent school for boys aged 7 to 18 and girls in the sixth form, located on The Plain in Oxford, England. It was founded as part of Magdalen College, Oxford, by William Waynflete in 1480.
The Good Schools Guide described the school as having "A comfortable mix of brains, brawn and artistic flair but demanding and challenging too," adding, "Not what you might expect a boys' public school to look like or feel like."
The school was named Independent School of the Year by the Sunday Times in 2004 and in 2008, the first boys' school to achieve this award twice.
The school is run by a Headmaster (known at Magdalen since the foundation of the school as simply "the Master") and a Board of Governors, who appoint the Master. It has both a senior school and a junior school. It contains 6 houses in the Senior School each headed by a housemaster, selected from the more senior members among the teaching staff, who number approximately 160. There are also six separate houses in the Junior School.
Almost all of the school's pupils go on to universities, and about a third of them to Oxford or Cambridge.
The Master, Helen Pike, began the role in August 2016 after previously being Headmistress at South Hampstead High School, London. In doing so, she became the first female master in the school's long history. Pike's stepchildren attended Magdalen College School.
The School was originally founded as a department of Magdalen College by William Waynflete to educate the sixteen boy choristers of Magdalen College, Oxford, who sang in the college's chapel, as well as other gifted local children of high academic achievement. The first certain evidence of the school's existence dates to 1480, although the beginnings of the school can be dated to some years earlier than this to at least as early as 1478. Since then it has grown from its original pupil population of approximately 30 to over 850.
Over its history, the school occupied various portions of the present-day Magdalen College, originally existing in the low hall south of the Chapel of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist, which prior to the establishment of Magdalen College by William Waynflete had occupied the present site. This building, replaced by the more modern 15th-century college buildings, existed in an area roughly in between the modern-day porter's lodge and Great Tower.
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