In the United Kingdom, private schools are schools that require fees for admission and enrollment. Some have financial endowments and most are governed by a board of directors consisting of school gov
Merchant Taylors' School (1561) is one of the nine Clarendon Commission schools.
Warwick School (914) is one of the oldest private schools in Britain.
Rossall School (1844)
Culford School (1873), a former 'direct grant' school
A public school in England and Wales is a type of fee-charging private school originally for older boys. The schools are "public" from a historical schooling context in the sense of being open to pupi
Private schools in the United Kingdom
…subject to a trust or of charitable status. Many of the older private schools catering for the 13–18 age range in England and Wales are known as public schools, seven of which were the subject of the Public Schools Act 1868. The term public school meant they were then open to pupils regardless of where they…
The playing fields of Rugby School, 1567, reestablished 1828. The rules of rugby football were codified here in 1845.
View of the old Norman Staircase and scholars, King's School Canterbury, lithograph by William Harvey, 1851
A bird's eye view of Eton College, founded 1440, by David Loggan, published in his Cantabrigia Illustrata of 1690
Cheltenham College, 1841