Old Swinford Hospital
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| Mottoes | Ut prosim, vince malum bono |
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| Established | 1667 |
| Type |
Voluntary aided comprehensive Day and boarding school |
| Headmaster | Mr Paul Kilbride |
| Chaplain | Reverend Martin Soar |
| Chair | Mr Malcolm Wilcox FRICS FRSA |
| Founder | Thomas Foley |
| Location |
Heath Lane Stourbridge West Midlands DY8 1QX England  Coordinates: 52°27′03″N 2°08′39″W / 52.4507°N 2.1442°W |
| Local authority | Dudley |
| DfE number | 332/5400 |
| DfE URN | 103870 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 603 |
| Gender | Boys; Coeducational Sixth Form |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | 7 Senior Boarding Houses, 1 Junior Boarding House, 1 Day Student House |
| Colours | |
| Publication | The Foleyan |
| Former Pupils | Old Foleyans |
| Website | www |
Old Swinford Hospital is a secondary boarding school in Oldswinford, Stourbridge, West Midlands, England that has been in continuous operation since the 17th century. It is one of 36 state boarding schools in England, meaning school fees are funded by the LEA and pupils only pay boarding fees. Girls are admitted into the sixth form as day pupils.
Old Swinford Hospital opened in the late summer of 1667. Originally called Stourbridge Hospital, it was founded by Thomas Foley, an ironmaster and prominent local landowner, whose main estate was at Great Witley, west of Stourport in Worcestershire, but with strong Stourbridge connections. It was to educate 60 boys from “poor but honest” families nominated by specified parishes in Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire. The school was sometimes named as Foley's blue coat school or hospital, or Oldswinford Hospital Endowed School. The school had increased to 70 boys by 1868.
The school consists of eight boarding houses:
There is one junior boarding house: Prospect House, which is for Year 7 boarders and one senior boarding house: Foster House, which is for Year 13 boarders. Foster was previously a boarding house for years 8-13 and reopened in October 2016 following extensive redevelopment. The other six houses (Baxter, Dudley, Foley, Maybury, Potter and Witley) house boarders from year 8 to year 12.
The Senior Housemaster of OSH is Mr A Hannah, previously housemaster of Potter House and Baxter House.
Before the houses were associated with buildings, there was also a Lyttelton house, named after the Lyttelton family who built nearby Hagley Hall. Katherine Lady Lyttelton and her son Sir Henry Lyttelton, sold the manor of Old Swinford to Thomas Foley in 1661. In the mid-20th century, when day boys outnumbered boarders, there were also day houses called Stone and Chance. Stone and Lyttleton are now the names of teaching blocks at the school.
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