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Oldest UK Independent Schools

The King's School, Canterbury (597)
The King's School, Rochester (604)
St Peter's School, York (627)
Wells Cathedral School (909)
Warwick School (914?)
St Albans School (948)
The King's School, Ely (970)
Norwich School, Norwich (1096)
High School of Glasgow (1124)
Bristol Cathedral School (1140)
Westminster School (1179)
High School of Dundee (1239)
Abingdon School (1256, possibly as old as 1100)
Royal Grammar School Worcester (1291)
Winchester College (1382)
Hereford Cathedral School (1384)
Oswestry School (1407)
Durham School (1414)
Sevenoaks School (1432)
Eton College (1440)
City of London School (1442)
Magdalen College School, Oxford (1480)
Stockport Grammar School (1487)
Loughborough Grammar School (1496)
St Paul's School (1509)
Royal Grammar School, Guildford (1509)
Wolverhampton Grammar School (1512)
Nottingham High School (1513)
Pocklington School (1514)
Manchester Grammar School (1515)
Bolton School (1516)
Sedbergh School (1525)
Bristol Grammar School (1532)
Stamford School (1532)
Berkhamsted Collegiate School (1541)
The King's School, Worcester (1541)
The King's School, Chester (1541)
Bradford Grammar School (1548)
Sherborne School (1550)
Bedford School (1552)
King Edward's School, Birmingham(1552)
King Edward's School, Bath (1552)
Shrewsbury School (1552)
Leeds Grammar School (1552)
Bromsgrove School (1553)
Christ's Hospital (1553)
King Edward's School, Witley (1553)
Tonbridge School (1553)
King Edward VI School, Southampton (1553)
Gresham's School (1555)
Oundle School (1556)
Hampton School (1556)
Brentwood School (1557)
Repton School (1557)
Solihull School (1560)
Kingston Grammar School (1561)
Merchant Taylors' School (1561)
Elizabeth College, Guernsey (1563)
Felsted School (1564)
Highgate School (1565)
Rugby School (1567)
Colfe's School (1568) refounded (1652)
St Edmund's College (1568)
Harrow (1572)
Sutton Valence School (1576)
St Bees (1583)
Oakham School (1584)
Uppingham School (1584)
Queen Elizabeth's Hospital (1590)
Stonyhurst College (1593)
Emanuel School (1594)
Wellingborough School (1595)
Whitgift School (1596)
Aldenham School (1597)
Kimbolton (1600)
Charterhouse School (1611)
Batley Grammar School (1612)
Downside School (1614)
Monmouth School (1614)
Perse School (1615)
Dulwich College (1619)
Latymer Upper School (1624)
Chigwell School (1629)
Exeter School (1633)
Hutchesons' Grammar School (1641)

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