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Shrewsbury School
Summary
Shrewsbury School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding school for pupils aged 13 –18) in Shrewsbury.
Founded in 1552 by Edward VI by Royal Charter, to replace the town's Saxon collegiate foundations which were disestablished in the sixteenth century, Shrewsbury School is one of the seven public schools subject to the Public Schools Act 1868 and one of the nine schools reviewed by the Clarendon Commission between 1861 and 1864.
It was originally a boarding school for boys, girls have been admitted into the Sixth Form since 2008 and the school has been co-educational since 2015. As of Michaelmas Term 2020, the school has 807 pupils: 544 boys and 263 girls. There are eight boys' boarding houses, four girls' boarding houses and two for approximately 130 day pupils.
The present site, to which the school moved in 1882, is on the south bank of the River Severn.
Since Saxon times the Collegiate Churches of
St Chad (traditionally founded in Shrewsbury when it was known as Pengwern, either by the royal family of the Kingdom of Powys in the 6th century; or by Offa, king of Mercia in the 8th century,) and
St Mary (established by King Edgar in the 10th century)
were providing education in the town, complemented by the foundation of Shrewsbury Abbey in the 11th century.
These were all broken up in the Reformation, although there is a mention of a grammar school at Shrewsbury in a court case of 1439.
Shrewsbury School was founded in response to those interruptions to the town's ancient traditions in education in the Reformation: the disruption caused significant local ill feeling, and by 1542, townspeople were beginning to petition Henry VIII for remedy. They devised a scheme hoping to use the proceeds from the dissolution of Shrewsbury Abbey for a renewed provision of education. They were not immediately successful.
The statesmen Sir Rowland Hill (who had the grant of certain of the abbey's holdings) was involved in the founding petitions.
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