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The Oratory School
The Oratory School is an independent Roman Catholic boarding and day school for boys aged 11 to 18 in Woodcote, Oxfordshire, England. Founded in 1859 by Cardinal John Henry Newman, it has historical ties to, but is not officially affiliated with fellow Oratorian schools, the London Oratory School and the Brompton Oratory in London. Although a separate entity from the nearby Oratory Preparatory School, it shares a board of governors and a common history. Newman founded the school with the intention of providing a classical education to Roman Catholic boys.
According to the ''Good Schools Guide'', 70% of pupils achieve A/B grades at A Level and that the school "enjoys inspirational leadership, has achieved GSG 'overall best in UK' for three years running and is consistently at the top of the tree", with "state-of-the-art" boarding facilities and an ongoing refurbishment programme under way.〔(Profile ) on the Good Schools Guide〕
== History ==
The Oratory School was founded under the supervision of John Henry Newman in 1859 and the first boys arrived before work began on the first day of May that year, "Sunday 1 May New School began." 〔''Newman’s Letters and Diaries'', Volume XIX, p.120.〕 The purpose was to provide a Roman Catholic alternative to Eton College, particularly for the sons of converts from Anglicanism who considered existing Catholic schools culturally and socially inferior. The idea of founding a school had been in Newman's mind for some time before that and education of the young was an abiding interest. In the early 1850s he had been invited by the Irish Catholic bishops to establish a Catholic university in Dublin, but it did not prove a success, though he was able to formulate the principles published as ''The Idea of a University''. When the Irish project came to an end, he was approached by a group of Catholic laymen, principally converts to Roman Catholicism from the Oxford Movement, to set up a Catholic boarding school for boys run on English public school lines, rather than the monastically based Catholic schools that already existed such as those run by the English Benedictine Congregation. The original school was opened next to the house of the Oratory Fathers in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
The Oratory School moved from Edgbaston to Caversham Park, Caversham and, in 1942 (when Caversham Park was requisitioned to become a BBC listening station, now BBC Monitoring), after a short sojourn in exile at Downside, finally removed to its present location at Woodcote Estate, Berkshire. The Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory handed over control of the school to a Governing Body in 1931, but links with the Birmingham, London and Oxford Oratories remain strong.
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