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| Coordinates | 51°30′41″N 00°05′56″W / 51.51139°N 0.09889°W |
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| Type | Public school Private day school |
| Motto | Latin: Domine Dirige Nos |
| Established | 1442 |
| Founder | John Carpenter |
| Department for Education URN | 100003 Tables |
| Chair of The Board of Governors | Tim Levene |
| Headmaster | Alan Bird |
| Staff | 122 |
| Gender | Boys |
| Age | 11 to 18 |
| Enrolment | 1018~ |
| Houses | Abbott, Beaufoy, Carpenter, Hale, Mortimer, Seeley |
| Colour(s) | Black and red |
| Publication | The Citizen (weekly) City Lights (termly) The Chronicle (annual) |
| Former pupils | Old Citizens |
| Affiliations | City of London Corporation HSBC The Rifles |
| Endowed | 1442 |
| Website | https://www.cityoflondonschool.org.uk |
The City of London School, also known as CLS and City, is a private day school for boys in the City of London, England, on the banks of the River Thames next to the Millennium Bridge, opposite Tate Modern. It is a partner school of the City of London School for Girls and the City of London Freemen's School. All three schools receive funding from the City's Cash.[1] It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). It is one of the most academically selective and successful schools in the country.
The school was founded by a private act of Parliament in 1834, following a bequest of land in 1442 for poor children in the City of London. The original school was established at Milk Street, moving first to the Victoria Embankment in 1879 and subsequently to its present site on Queen Victoria Street in 1986.
Former pupils, known as Old Citizens, who have attained eminence in various fields are former UK Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, First World War hero Theodore Bayley Hardy, Nobel Prize–winning scientists Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Peter Higgs, Justice of the Supreme Court Lawrence Collins, Historian John Robert Seeley, England cricket captain Mike Brearley, British chemist and entrepreneur William Henry Perkin, Booker Prize-winning authors Kingsley Amis and Julian Barnes, Hollywood film director Michael Apted, and actor Daniel Radcliffe.
The school provides day education to about 1,000 boys aged 11 to 18 and employs approximately 100 teaching staff and around another 100 non-teaching staff.[2][3] The majority of pupils enter at 11, some at 13 and some at 16 into the Sixth Form. Admissions are based on an entrance examination and an interview, with the exception of pupils educated at the City Junior School, who are given an automatic place at 11+.
- ^ "CITY'S CASH ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2016" (PDF). City of London. Corporation of the City of London. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ City of London School, London - Gov.UK, Government, retrieved 31 May 2023
- ^ City of London School, Independent Schools Council, archived from the original on 11 May 2009, retrieved 2 August 2009