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The King's School, Canterbury

The King's School
The King's School, Canterbury.svg
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Established 597; 1420 years ago (597)
Type Independent day and boarding school
Public school
Religion Church of England
Headmaster Peter Roberts
Chaplain Fredrick Arvidsson
Chairman of Governors Robert Willis
(Dean of Canterbury)
Founder St. Augustine of Canterbury
Location Canterbury
Kent
CT1 2ES
United Kingdom
Coordinates: 51°16′54″N 1°04′58″E / 51.281671°N 1.082710°E / 51.281671; 1.082710
DfE URN 118996 Tables
Students 817
Gender Coeducational
Ages 13–18
Houses 16
Colours

Blue and white

         
Former Pupils Old King's Scholars
Website www.kings-school.co.uk

Blue and white

The King's School is a British co-educational independent school for both day and boarding pupils in the English city of Canterbury in Kent. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Eton Group. It is held to be the oldest continuously operating school in the world, having been founded in 597 AD.

The school originated as a medieval cathedral school said to have been founded during the Late Antiquity in 597 AD a century after the Fall of the Roman Empire by Augustine of Canterbury considered the "Apostle to the English" and a founder of the English Church, therefore making it the world's oldest extant school. This is based on the fact that St Augustine founded an abbey (within the current school's grounds) where it is known that teaching took place. When the dissolution of the monasteries occurred in the reign of King Henry VIII, the school was refounded as The King's School, Canterbury under the ownership and stewardship of the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church.

During the 17th and 18th centuries, the school remained a grammar school. During the Victorian era the school began to establish itself as a "public school". The school evacuated to Cornwall following the outbreak of World War II and received a new Royal Charter at the end of the war. Girls were admitted for the first time when the sixth form became coeducational during the 1970s. In 1990, the school became fully coeducational.


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