Shrewsbury House School should not be confused with Shrewsbury School.
County: | Greater London |
Postcode: | KT6 6RL |
Country: | GBR |
Town: | Surbiton |
Oversight: | Ofsted Independent Schools Inspectorate |
Founder: | Rev. H. Wilson |
Average Class Size: | 16 |
Gender: | Boys |
Lower Age: | 7 |
Upper Age: | 13 |
Schooltype: | Independent School |
Language: | English |
Sports: | Football, rugby and cricket, inter alia |
Motto: | "Alta Peto" (Latin: Aim High) |
Founded: | 1865 |
Students: | 320 (Approx.)[1] |
Homepage: | www.shrewsburyhouse.net |
Shrewsbury House School, commonly referred to as SHS or Shrewsbury House, is an independent day preparatory school for boys aged 7 to 13, in Surbiton at the edge of Greater London close to the Surrey border, its historic county, in England.[2] Established in 1865 it is among the minority of extant Preparatory Schools founded before the year 1900.[3]
A proportion of pupils achieve results at Common Entrance Examinations to gain entry to schools such as public schools.[4]
The school has been an educational trust since 1979 administered by a Board of Governors some of whom are among its trustees.[5] All of the Governors, except two of the educationalists and the medical expert, are former parents.[6]
Shrewsbury House School was founded in 1865 by Rev. Henry Wilson, a local clergyman, in the centre of Surbiton and derived its name from the Wilson family’s association with the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire.
In 1910 the School moved to Haulkerton, a large Victorian Arts and Crafts mansion dating, from the mid-nineteenth century, on Ditton Hill. The main house was renamed Shrewsbury House and the School has remained there ever since.
For the next 70 years, the School was operated by a series of private owners, most notably Henry Hamilton-Miller, who gave the School his family coat of arms and the motto Alta Peto. In 1979, the School became a charitable trust, administered by a Board of Governors, known as the Shrewsbury House School Trust.
In 2009, the school took over the pre-preparatory department of nearby Milbourne Lodge School, which was renamed Shrewsbury Lodge School and later Shrewsbury House Pre-Preparatory School, after The Rowans School, Wimbledon, joined the Shrewsbury House School Trust in 2017