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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. ==History== The 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 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.〔Bush, R.J.E. Exeter Free Grammar School, 1633-1809. Trans. Devon. Assoc. 94, (1962)〕〔Parry, H. Lloyd. The Founding of Exeter School: A History of the Struggle for freedom of Education within the City of Exeter, Exeter and London, (1913)〕〔("A short history of Princesshay" ), Exeter Memories〕 In March 1945 its status changed again to a direct grant grammar school and remained as such until September 1975 when the scheme was abolished. In September 1976 the first "independent" pupils were admitted into the school.〔("Study of Occupational Change" ), Nuffield College, Oxford, 1972〕 From 1979, the School participated in the Assisted Places Scheme, taking over 200 pupils at its peak, but this scheme was abolished in 1997 and the last of these pupils left in the summer of 2004.〔("Exeter Middle School's Cup Final" ), The New Millennium〕 In 1981 the Sixth Form became coeducational. Following the success of the move, girls were admitted to all years in 1997. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Exeter School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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