Established 1874 DfE URN 125347 Tables Number of students 401 Staff 40 (approx.) | Chairman of Governors Mrs J. Alliss Phone +44 1428 604808 Founded 1874 | |
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Type Independent prep and senior school
(boarding and day) Headmaster A. J. Walliker MA (Cantab.) Location Hindhead
Surrey
GU26 6BH
England Address Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Portsmouth Rd, Hindhead GU26 6BH, UK Motto Per manedo vincimus (Latin) Similar King Edward's School, Amesbury School, Frensham Heights School, The Royal School, Highfield School | ||
St Edmund's School is a coeducational nursery, pre-prep, preparatory and Senior school located in the village of Hindhead, around 10.5 miles south-west from the town of Guildford, in Surrey. It was founded in Hunstanton, Norfolk, England, in 1874.
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History
The school moved to Hindhead, Surrey, in 1900, into a large country house named Blen Cathra, previously a home of George Bernard Shaw, with grounds of some 35 acres (14 ha).
The school's original buildings in Hunstanton was purchased in 1901 by Howard Cambridge Barber and became the home of Glebe House School.
As the school developed through the 20th Century it established itself as a traditional English Preparatory school, preparing its students for senior, public school education, regularly sending students to the likes of Eton College, Cranleigh, Charterhouse and Canford. In 1968 the school had 130 boarders, and 25 day boys "taken for the first two years". In 1979 The St Edmund's School Charitable Trust was formed to help take the school forward, with Richard Saunders, an old boy, becoming its first Chairman of Governors.
For most of its existence St Edmund's was for boys only, however, with the first girls being admitted in 2008, the school is now co-educational. In 2014 the ISI report listed it as having 249 pupils. 173 boys and 76 girls.
The school's transition into a modern-day public school has seen it dropping traditional Saturday school for Optional Saturday Morning Activities. It operates a flexi-boarding system. A programme of refurbishments and building projects included a new teaching block (the W.H.Auden Centre), opened by Sir Bruce Forsyth CBE in October 2014.