| The Skinners' School | |||||||||||
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St John's Road , , TN4 9PG England | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°08′33″N 0°15′40″E / 51.1425°N 0.261°E | ||||||||||
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| Type | Grammar School | ||||||||||
| Motto | "To God Only Be All Glory" and "In Christo Fratres" | ||||||||||
| Established | 1887 | ||||||||||
| Founder | Worshipful Company of Skinners | ||||||||||
| Department for Education URN | 140595 Tables | ||||||||||
| Ofsted | Reports | ||||||||||
| Chairman | Major General John Moore-Bick CBE DL | ||||||||||
| Headmaster | Edward Wesson | ||||||||||
| Gender | Boys | ||||||||||
| Age | 11 to 18 | ||||||||||
| Number of students | 1200+ | ||||||||||
| Houses | Sebastian, Atwell, Hunt, Knott, Nicholson (from 1/9/2017) | ||||||||||
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| Publication | The Leopard | ||||||||||
| Former pupils | Old Skinners | ||||||||||
| School Song | The Leopard Song | ||||||||||
| Website | www.skinners-school.co.uk | ||||||||||
The Skinners' School (formally The Skinners' Company's Middle School for Boys and commonly known as Skinners'), is a British Grammar School with academy status for boys located in the town of Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Established in 1887, the school was founded by the Worshipful Company of Skinners (one of the 111 livery companies of the City of London) in response to a demand for education in the region.[1] Today Skinners' remains an all-boys grammar school, recently awarded specialist status in science and mathematics in recognition of these disciplines' excellent teaching. The current enrolment is 1119 pupils, of whom around 326 are in the sixth form.[2] The first headmaster was Reverend Frederick Knott, after whom Knott House is named. The current Headmaster is Edward Wesson.
Skinners' boys generally take eleven General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) tests in Year Eleven (aged 15–16), and they have a choice of three or four A-levels in the sixth form. An Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) inspection in November 2021 graded The Skinners' School as "good".[3] The majority of students go on to higher education following the completion of their A-levels at the end of Year Thirteen (aged 17–18), and in 2011 and 2022, one in ten Year 13 students gained an Oxbridge offer.
- ^ Beeby C. 'The Birth of a School or A Tale of Two Townships', Kingfisher Kent (1984)
- ^ Wesson, Edward. "About The School". Skinners School. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ Maskatiya, Yasmin; Edwards, Stuart; Culling, Linda; Murphy, Paul; Haynes, Matthew (16 November 2021). "Inspection of The Skinners' School" (PDF). Ofsted (published 14 January 2022). Archived from the original on 5 January 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2023.