page_title: Sherborne School
hierarchical_section_title: Sherborne School
caption_attribution_description: English: Sherborne School
context_page_description: Sherborne School is an English independent boarding school for boys, located beside Sherborne Abbey, in the parish of Sherborne, Dorset. The school has remained in the same location for over 1,300 years. It was founded in 705 AD by St Aldhelm and, following the dissolution of the monasteries, re-founded in 1550 by King Edward VI, making it one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom. Sherborne is one of the twelve founding member public schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference in 1869 and is a member of the Eton Group.
  In the public school tradition, Sherborne remains a full boarding school with boys living seven days a week in one of nine boarding houses. Sherborne is one of only five such remaining single-sex boys' boarding independent senior schools in the United Kingdom, although uniquely Sherborne also admits a few day boys. Sherborne educates about 560 boys, aged 13 to 18, and its A level results placed it in the top 1% of all schools in England in 2016 and 2017.
  Sherborne has a partnership with the neighbouring Sherborne Girls school.
context_section_description: Sherborne School is an English independent boarding school for boys, located beside Sherborne Abbey, in the parish of Sherborne, Dorset. The school has remained in the same location for over 1,300 years. It was founded in 705 AD by St Aldhelm and, following the dissolution of the monasteries, re-founded in 1550 by King Edward VI, making it one of the oldest schools in the United Kingdom. Sherborne is one of the twelve founding member public schools of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference in 1869 and is a member of the Eton Group.
  In the public school tradition, Sherborne remains a full boarding school with boys living seven days a week in one of nine boarding houses. Sherborne is one of only five such remaining single-sex boys' boarding independent senior schools in the United Kingdom (the others being Eton, Harrow, Radley, and Winchester), although uniquely Sherborne also admits a few day boys. Sherborne educates about 560 boys, aged 13 to 18, and its A level results placed it in the top 1% of all schools in England in 2016 and 2017. 
  Sherborne has a partnership with the neighbouring Sherborne Girls school. While both are single-sex full boarding schools, a programme of shared academic, co-curricular and social activities enables Sherborne boys and girls to mix and work together.
caption: Sherborne boys in Blues walking across the Courts to classes
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