Worth School
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| Motto |
Latin: Gloria Dei est homo bene vivit (The glory of God is a person fully alive) |
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| Established | 1933 |
| Type |
Independent day and boarding Public school |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| Head Master | Stuart McPherson |
| Lower Master | Andre Gushurst-Moore |
| Chairman of the Governors | Alda Andreotti |
| Chaplain | Luke Jolly |
| Founder | John Chapman |
| Location |
Paddockhurst Road Turners Hill West Sussex RH10 4SD England |
| DfE number | 938/6208 |
| DfE URN | 126137 Tables |
| Students | 600 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | 10 |
| Colours | Worth blue & gold |
| Publication |
The Identity The Insight The Blue Paper |
| Former pupils | Old Worthians |
| Website | Official website |
Worth School /ˈwɜːrθ/ near Worth, West Sussex, England, is a former boys' and since 2012 a co-educational Roman Catholic boarding and day independent school for pupils from 11 to 18 years of age. The school is located within Worth Abbey, a Benedictine monastery, in 500 acres (2.0 km2) of Sussex countryside. It is one of the three prominent Benedictine independent boarding schools in the United Kingdom; the other two being Ampleforth and Downside. For the academic year 2015/16, Worth charged day pupils up to £7,275 per term, making it the 42nd most expensive HMC day school. It is a public school in the British sense of the term.
In 2012 Tatler reported that 8% of the school's students later go on to study at either Oxford or Cambridge university.
In 1933 the Paddockhurst country estate of Lord Cowdray was purchased by Downside Abbey, Somerset, a monastic community of the Benedictine Order. John Chapman, Abbot of Downside, founded a dependent priory, named Worth Priory, on the estate, with a preparatory school for boys aged 7 to 13. This school, set in the mansion house of Paddockhurst, was a junior school for the school at Downside. Having 60 pupils at foundation, numbers rose to 100 in 1939 when the school was evacuated and moved to Downside Abbey for the duration of the Second World War. In 1957 pupil numbers rose to 256, the school becoming the second largest preparatory school in the country.
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