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Crest Motto Sapiens qui prospicit ("Wise is he who looks ahead")
Established 1865
School type Independent, co-educational, boarding & day School
US Grade Equivalent Grades 8-12
Headmaster Hugh Carson (until June 2006)
Location Great Malvern, Worcestershire, UK
Enrollment 150 pupils/year (approx.)
Total Alumni To Date Unknown
Average Class Size 15 pupils
Colours Green and white
Homepage www.malvern-college.co.uk

Malvern College is a coeducational English public school for pupils aged 13 to 18, founded in 1865. It is located at Malvern, Worcestershire, England, on the Malvern Hills.

It was originally an all boys school, but is now coeducational, having absorbed many buildings of the once adjacent Ellerslie girls school. It is not to be confused with Malvern Girls' College, which is a separate school. Its junior school is called Hillstone, which again was a separate boys preparatory school until the early 1990s.

History

Following Malvern's prominence as a spa town in the earlier years of the nineteenth century, and the advent of the railway, the College was founded by a group of mainly local businessmen. It opened in January 1865 to two dozen boys and half a dozen masters. Initially, there were two Houses but expansion was rapid and by 1877 there were six Houses and 290 boys.

The Chapel records over 600 Old Malvernians and Hillstonians who gave their lives in the First and Second World Wars. Further expansion of pupil numbers and buildings continued after the Great War but during the Second World War the College suffered more than any other comparable independent school, being twice ejected and shrinking to half its former size. Required to make way for the Admiralty between October 1939 and July 1940, it found a temporary home at Blenheim Palace.The College underwent a further period of exile from May 1942 to July 1946. Ordered out at one week's notice, the school was housed with Harrow School. The College's premises were then occupied by the Telecommunications and Radar establishment, and there is more than a grain of truth in echoing Eton's Waterloo claim that the Second World War was won on the playing fields of Malvern College; indeed, the modern Defence Research Agency is still sited on former College land.

Since 1946, the College has continued to build new facilities - Medical Centre 1967, Arts Centre 1974, Sports Hall 1977, Technology Building 1992 - and has also played a significant role in the development of educational projects. In 1963 it was the first independent school to have a language laboratory, it pioneered Nuffield Physics in the 1960s, Science in Society in the 1970s, and the Diploma of Achievement in the 1990s. Today's coeducational College came about in 1992 when three successful schools (Malvern College, Ellerslie Girls’ School and Hillstone Prep) were brought together.

Also at the beginning of the 1990s, Malvern continued to be at the forefront of innovation by being one of the first schools in Britain to offer the International Baccalaureate in the Sixth Form.

To this day Malvern College has built a fine reputation as one of the most successful and reputable private schools in the United Kingdom.

(AJ, N01)

Notable alumni

External links

Boarding schools | Malvern | Racquets venues | Public schools in Worcestershire | Schools with Combined Cadet Forces | Educational institutions established in 1865

 

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