Roedean School
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| Motto |
Honneur aulx dignes ("Honour the worthy") |
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| Established | 1885 |
| Type | Independent day and boarding school |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headmaster | Oliver Blond |
| President of Trustees | Lady Patten of Barnes |
| Location |
Roedean Way Brighton East Sussex BN2 5RQ England Coordinates: 50°48′43″N 0°05′06″W / 50.812°N 0.085°W |
| Local authority | Brighton and Hove |
| DfE number | 846/6006 |
| DfE URN | 114616 Tables |
| Students | 600 |
| Gender | Female |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | 6 |
| Former pupils | Old Roedeanians |
| Website | www |
Roedean School is an independent day and boarding school in Roedean Village on the outskirts of Brighton, East Sussex, England for girls aged 11 to 18. The campus is situated near the Sussex Downs on a cliff overlooking Brighton Marina. The school incorporates dance studios, plenty of music classrooms, a 320-seat theatre, a heated indoor swimming pool, a golf course, private tunnel to the beach, farm and a chapel, as well as a range of workshops, studios, laboratories and sports pitches. Current school fees are between £5,250 and £13,360 per term, from the youngest day girls to the oldest boarders. This puts Roedean among the most expensive girls' schools in the United Kingdom. Roedean School is a member of the Girls' Schools Association and the Headmasters Conference (HMC). The Good Schools Guide stated that the "School has a healthy spirit and much to offer." The Independent Schools Inspectorate rated Roedean as Excellent in all areas (highest category) in its most recent inspection (March 2016).
The school was founded in 1885 as Wimbledon House by three sisters: Penelope, Millicent, and Dorothy Lawrence. Their brother was the lawyer Sir Paul Lawrence of Wimbledon, who helped them considerably, and their Lawrence great aunts had been noted school teachers earlier in the century, mainly in Liverpool. Roedean was founded to prepare girls for entrance to the newly opened women's colleges at Cambridge University, Girton (now co-ed) and Newnham Colleges. In 1898, the school moved to its present site occupying new buildings designed by the architect Sir John Simpson. A sister school, also called Roedean School and co-founded by the youngest Lawrence sister, Theresa, in 1903, is located in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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