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Westminster school

Westminster School
Official rendition of the Coat of arms of Westminster School.svg
Motto Dat Deus Incrementum
(God Gives the Increase)
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 / 51.4984; -0.1284
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.org.uk

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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