Hymers College

Hymers College
Address
Hymers Avenue Kingston upon Hull , East Riding of Yorkshire , HU3 1LW England
Coordinates	53°44′54″N 0°21′54″W / 53.748401°N 0.365094°W / 53.748401; -0.365094
Information
Type	Private school Day school
Motto	High Merit, High Reward
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Established	1893; 131 years ago (1893)
Founder	The Revd Dr John Hymers JP DD FRS
Local authority	Hull City Council
Department for Education URN	118131 Tables
Chairman of Governors	J M V Redman
Headmaster	Justin Stanley
Staff	105 teaching, 20 support
Gender	Co-educational
Age	7 to 18
Enrolment	~1000
Houses	Brandesburton   Gore   Holderness   Trinity
Colour(s)	Junior School Senior School Old Hymerian
Publication	The Hymerian
Endowment	1887
Affiliations	HMC Hymers Hessle Mount School
Alumni	Old Hymerians
Website	www.hymerscollege.co.uk

Hymers College is a co-educational private day school in Kingston upon Hull, located on the site of the old Botanical Gardens. It is one of the leading schools in the East Riding of Yorkshire and a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.^[1]

The school was founded following the death in 1887 of the Revd Dr John Hymers, Rector of Brandesburton, who left a substantial sum in his will for the founding of a school "for the training of intelligence in whatever social rank of life it may be found among the vast and varied population of the town and port of Hull". Construction of the buildings was completed in 1893, and the first pupils arrived in September of that year. The school, initially open only to boys, expanded to include girls incrementally from the 1970s, becoming fully co-educational in 1989.^[2]

Presently, Hymers educates around 1000 pupils aged 3–18 across the Pre-School, Junior and Senior Schools, with about 100 members of the teaching staff. The two major intakes of pupils are at age 3, into Pre-School, age 4, into Reception, age 7, into Year 3, age 11, into Year 7 and age 16, into Sixth Form. Capacity allowing, the school does accept pupils into other year groups also.

Old Hymerians include several prominent sportspeople, diplomats, academics and politicians, including the physicist Dr Edward Milne MBE FRS, who worked on the problem of the expanding universe, alongside Albert Einstein.