Royal Russell School
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| Motto |
Non Sibi Sed Omnibus Not for one's self but for all |
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| Established | 1853 |
| Type | Independent day and boarding school |
| Headmaster | Mr Chris J Hutchinson, BMet Sheffield, MInst P, FRSA |
| Location |
Coombe Lane Croydon London CR9 5BX England Coordinates: 51°21′27″N 0°03′58″W / 51.3575°N 0.0662°W |
| Local authority | Croydon |
| DfE number | 306/6009 |
| Students | 900 (approx) |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 3–18 |
| Houses | Madden Cambridge Oxford St Andrews Keable Hollenden Buchanan Reade Queens |
| Colours |
Maroon |
| Publication | The Russellian |
| Former pupils | Old Russellians |
| Patron | Queen Elizabeth II |
| Website | www |
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Royal Russell School is an independent school in Coombe Lane, Surrey, South London. The Royal Russell School is a co-educational day and boarding school. The motto of the school is "Non sibi sed omnibus" meaning "Not for one's self but for all". The School is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The patron of the school is Queen Elizabeth II.
There are currently 900 pupils at the Royal Russell School, aged between 3-18. The school occupies a site of 100 acres (0.40 km2)in gardens in a wooded estate 2 miles south-east of Croydon. The School moved the boys' part of the school from Russell Hill in Purley to the Ballards site in 1924, then moving the girls' section of the school completely to the Ballards site in 1961, and selling the original school site on Russell Hill in Purley in 1961. The Junior and Lower Junior schools are in separate buildings from the Senior School, but are still on the same site.
Since the 1970s new and better facilities have been built, numbers of girls have increased and the academic record has been good. The school has enjoyed Royal Patronage from its early days and the Queen has visited the school on four occasions as of 2013[update]. Her first visit was in 1950 as Princess Elizabeth; in 1963 she opened Cambridge House and the Practical Block: she joined the celebrations of 125 years in 1979 and the sesquicentenary in 2003.
The school is now independent of The Warehousemen, Clerks and Drapers Livery companies and operates as a charity under the direction of its own Board of Governors. Extensive changes have taken place in recent years and today there is an IAPS Junior School and HMC Senior School on the one hundred acre estate.
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