Truro School
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| Motto |
Esse quam videri (Latin) To be, rather than to seem to be |
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| Established | 1880 |
| Type |
Independent Day and boarding |
| Religion | Methodist |
| Headmaster | Andrew Gordon-Brown |
| Location |
Trennick Lane Truro Cornwall TR1 1TH England |
| DfE number | 908/6079 |
| Students | 1050~ (2011) |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 3–18 |
| Houses | 4 |
| Former pupils | Old Truronians |
| Website | www |
Truro School is a coeducational independent day and boarding school in the city of Truro, Cornwall, England, UK. It is the largest coeducational independent school in Cornwall with over 1050 pupils from pre-prep to sixth form. It is a member School of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference of Leading Independent Schools. Membership of the HMC is often considered to be what defines a school as a public school in England and Wales.
Truro Wesleyan Middle Class College (referred to as Truro College) was founded by Wesleyan Methodists in November 1879, and on 20 January 1880 lessons began at sites in River Street and Strangways Terrace, Truro. The present site was completed in 1882. The school was founded as an alternative to the Church of England's ancient Truro Grammar School. The name Truro College was changed to Truro School in 1931 when it was considered that it was "pretentious...to claim the style of "College" if its pupils are for the most part below the age of 18". The preparatory department was opened in 1936. Girls were admitted into the sixth form in 1976, and it became fully co-educational in 1990. In 2005, a history of the school entitled High on the Hill was produced by Joanna Wood to commemorate its 125th anniversary.
The school has had eleven Headmasters since its foundation 137 years ago:
Pupils must sit an entrance exam, the equivalent of an 11+ exam, although some pupils take the equivalent 13+ exam as certain local schools still teach up to year 9 (year 3). Academic, and occasionally music, artistic or sports scholarships, are also awarded as well as are means-tested bursaries. Current fees range from £2,850 per term at the Prep School for Nursery and Reception day pupils to £7,900 per term for full boarders at the Senior School.
In November 2005 the school was one of 50 private schools found guilty of running an illegal price-fixing cartel, exposed by The Times, which had resulted in them increasing fees for thousands of parents. Each school was required to pay a nominal penalty of £10,000 and all agreed to make an ex-gratia payment, collectively totalling £3 million, into a trust designed to benefit pupils who attended the schools during the period where the fee information was shared. Headmaster Paul Smith said that the school had acted "unwittingly". "This ... systematic exchange of confidential information as to intended fee increases was anti-competitive and resulted in parents being charged higher fees than would otherwise be the case," the OFT stated.
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