Westminster School
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| Motto |
Dat Deus Incrementum (God Gives the Increase) |
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| Established | Unknown, teaching existed since at least 1179, refounded in 1560 |
| Type |
Public school Independent day and boarding school |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Head Master | Patrick Derham |
| Chairman of Governors | Very Revd. John Hall, Dean of Westminster |
| Founder |
Henry VIII (1541) Elizabeth I (1560 - refoundation) |
| Location |
Little Dean's Yard London, SW1 United Kingdom Coordinates: 51°29′54″N 0°07′42″W / 51.4984°N 0.1284°W |
| Local authority | City of Westminster |
| DfE number | 213/6047 |
| DfE URN | 101162 Tables |
| Staff | 105 |
| Students | 747 |
| Gender | Boys Coeducational (Sixth Form) |
| Ages | 13 (boys), 16 (girls)–18 |
| Houses |
College Grant's Rigaud's Busby's Liddell's Purcell's Ashburnham Wren's Dryden's Hakluyt's Milne's |
| Colours | Pink |
| Publication | The Elizabethan |
| Former pupils | Old Westminsters |
| Website | www |
Westminster School is an English independent day and boarding school located within the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It has the highest Oxford and Cambridge university acceptance rates of any secondary school or college in the world. With origins before the 12th century, the educational tradition of Westminster probably dates back as far as AD 960, in line with the Abbey's history. The school's alumni include Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Robert Hooke,Sir Christopher Wren, Louis Theroux, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham,Edward Gibbon, Henry Mayhew, A. A. Milne, Peter Ustinov, Tony Benn and seven Prime Ministers. Boys are admitted to the Under School at age seven and to the senior school at age thirteen; girls are admitted at age sixteen into the Sixth Form. The school has around 750 pupils; around a quarter are boarders, most of whom go home at weekends, after Saturday morning school. It is one of the original seven public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Charging up to £7,800 per term for day pupils and £11,264 for boarders in 2014/15, Westminster is the 13th most expensive HMC day school and 10th most expensive HMC boarding school in the UK.
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