Exeter School

at , Exeter , EX2 4NS United Kingdom

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Exeter School is a selective independent co-educational day school for pupils between the ages of 7 and 18 located in Exeter, Devon, England. In 2015 there were around 200 pupils in the Junior School and 700 in the Senior School. The school maintains close links with its former pupils through the Old Exonian Club which meets annually around the country.HistoryThe School traces its origins from the opening of the Exeter Free Grammar School on 1 August 1633, attended mainly by the sons of the City freemen. Exeter’s wealthy merchants, notably Tommy Walker, provided the finance, with sufficient bequests to pay the Headmaster £50 a year and to install the school in the medieval buildings of St John’s Hospital, which had stood on the south side of the High Street since the 12th Century.In 1878 the school opened as Exeter Grammar School at a new campus designed by noted architect William Butterfield. The school occupies this 25acre site on Victoria Park Road to this day. The cost at the time was £7,600 with a further £16,750 spent on the erection of buildings. It was decided that St John’s Hospital Trust had to pay to Exeter School the net annual income of all endowments for Exhibitions and Scholarships attached to the School, and it also had to pay a proportion of the residue of its income.In 1920 the Governors of Exeter School decided that it was no longer possible for them to continue the School without considerable assistance. The Exeter Education Authority agreed to assist but only if the School came under its direct control so, in April 1921, control of the school was handed over to the City. It then became a "maintained" school until 1929 when it became an "aided" school, thus regaining charge of its own finances under a newly appointed Governing Body.

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Exeter School is Exeter based place and this enity listed in School category. EX2 4NS. Contact phone number of Exeter School: (01392) 258712