- Dorset House School
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Dorset House School Established 1784 Type Other Independent School Religion Church of England Location The Manor
Bury
Pulborough
West Sussex
RH20 1PB
EnglandLocal authority West Sussex DfE URN 126109 Students 135 Gender Coeducational Ages 3–14 Website dorsethouse.w-sussex.sch.uk Coordinates: 50°54′31″N 0°33′19″W / 50.90855°N 0.5552°W
Dorset House School is a co-educational preparatory school near Pulborough in West Sussex, England. There are 135 pupils, made up of 118 boys and 17 girls, whose ages range from 2yrs to 13yrs. This school is a feeder to all the major public schools in the South-East of England, including the prestigious (and best boys school in England) Harrow, RGS Guildford, Lancing, Hurstpierpoint, Worth, Radley, Tonbridge and Christ's Hospital.
History
The school was founded in 1784 as Totteridge Park School in Hertfordshire. In 1865 it moved to Hendon and became Brent Bridge House school, and from 1874 to 1886, it move to Elstree and became Hillside School.[1] In 1886 it moved to Littlehampton and became The School House, and in 1905, it merged with and became Dorset House School.[2]
External links
References
- ^ Donald P. Leinster-Mackay, The rise of the English prep school, Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 1984, ISBN 0905273745, 9780905273747, 398 pages (note 32, page 33)
- ^ "Our History", Welcome to Dorset House School, retrieved 19 Sep 2011
Categories:- Preparatory schools in West Sussex
- Educational institutions established in the 1780s
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