Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster
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| Motto |
Latin: Dat Deus Incrementum (God Gives the Increase) |
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| Established | Earliest records date from the 14th Century, 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 51°29′54″N 0°07′42″W / 51.4984°N 0.1284°WCoordinates: 51°29′54″N 0°07′42″W / 51.4984°N 0.1284°W |
| Local authority | City of Westminster |
| DfE URN | 101162 Tables |
| Staff | 105 |
| Students | 747 |
| Gender | Boys Coeducational (Sixth Form) |
| Ages | 13 (boys), 16 (girls)–18 |
| Houses |
College Ashburnham Busby's Dryden's Grant's Hakluyt's Liddell's Milne's Purcell's Rigaud's Wren's |
| Colours | Pink |
| Publication | The Elizabethan |
| Former pupils | Old Westminsters |
| Website | www |
Westminster School is an independent day and boarding school in London, England, located within the precincts of Westminster Abbey. 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. 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. Westminster school achieved the highest percentage of students accepted by Oxbridge colleges over the period 2002-2006.
The earliest records of a school at Westminster date back to the 1370s and are held in Westminster Abbey's Muniment Room, with parts of the buildings now used by the school dating back to the 10th century Anglo-Saxon Abbey at Westminster.
In 1540, Henry VIII ordered the dissolution of the monasteries in England, including that of the powerful Abbots of Westminster, but personally ensured the School's survival by his royal charter. The Royal College of St. Peter carried on with forty "King's Scholars" financed from the royal purse. By this point Westminster School had certainly become a public school (i.e. a school available to members of the public, as long as they could pay their own costs, rather than private tuition provided to the nobility). During Mary I's brief reign the Abbey was reinstated as a Roman Catholic monastery, but the school continued.
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