St. John's School, Leatherhead
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| Motto |
Latin: Quae Sursum Sunt Quaerite Seek those things which are above |
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| Established | 1851 |
| Type | Independent school. Co-educational day, weekly and flexi boarding |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headteacher | Martin A R Collier MA (Oxon) Rowena Cole (from 2017) |
| Preceded by | Nicholas Haddock MBE MA (Oxon) |
| Founder | Ashby Haslewood |
| Location |
Epsom Road Leatherhead Surrey KT22 8SP United Kingdom 
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| DfE URN | 125353 Tables |
| Students | 660 pupils |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 13–18 |
| Colours |
Green and White |
| Former pupils | Old Johnians |
| Visitor | The Archbishop of Canterbury |
| Patron | The Duchess of Gloucester |
| Website | www.stjohnsleatherhead.co.uk |
Coordinates: 51°17′49″N 0°19′23″W / 51.297°N 0.323°W
Green and White
St John’s School in Leatherhead, Surrey is a fully co-educational Independent school for pupils aged 11 to 18. The school offers day, weekly and flexible boarding for approximately 718 pupils.
St John’s was founded in 1851 to educate the sons of the clergy, and was relocated from St John’s Wood, London to its current site in Surrey in 1872. Set in 50 acres, the school’s site is a mixture of old and new, with mid-Victorian architecture complemented by a Science Centre, and modern classroom blocks and boarding houses.
The school was founded in 1851 as St John's Foundational School for the Sons of Poor Clergy. Its founder was a clergyman, Ashby Haslewood, who was vicar of St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace in St John's Wood, north London. He had a dual purpose in founding the school - to offer free education for the sons of poor clergymen and to provide a choir for his large church.
Since the 1970s St John's, while maintaining a substantial boarding community, has taken in an increasing number of day pupils and in 1989 the first Sixth Form girls entered the school. In 2010 girls were able to join the school in the first year (fourth form) for the first time and the school has been fully co-educational since September 2012.
The school was a success but the dual purpose imposed restrictions. So in 1854 the school moved outside the parish boundaries of St Mark's into neighbouring Kilburn. This was the first of three moves before the school moved to Leatherhead in 1872. Reverend Edward Connerford Hawkins was one of the first headmasters, when the school was still at Clapton in north-east London. He and his wife Jane Isabella Grahame (an aunt of Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind in the Willows) brought up their family there; their son Anthony Hope, who also grew up to be an author, was educated at the school until he was old enough to be sent to Marlborough College.
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