Sir William Perkins's School in Chertsey, Surrey, aims to have mixed classrooms by 2030 following demand from families hoping to send siblings to school together
Private schools are facing pressure to raise funds with threat of Labour VAT 'raid'. Surrey school said change driven by parents asking to school siblings togetherA prestigious girls' private school in Surrey will admit boys for the first time in 100 years in order to allow 'siblings to be educated together'.
Debbie Picton, the school's headteacher, said: 'This is the start of an exciting new chapter in the long history of our school. We are delighted that boys will be able to benefit from our educational excellence and pastoral ethos.'TV star Trisha Goddard was educated at the school 'Our vision and ethos remain the same, that every single student at Sir William Perkins's School is encouraged and enabled in a purposeful environment where everyone thrives.'
By 1736 it was admitting girls for free education - long before the 1880 Education Act made education compulsory for all children between the ages of five and ten, with state funding available. The school - whose former pupils include the members of Radiohead, the comedian David Mitchell and actor Tom Hollander - said it was 'delighted to announce that both its schools are to become co-educational'.
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