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Shaftesbury School is a coeducational secondary day school located in Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset.

Previously a voluntary controlled Church of England school administered by the Diocese of Salisbury and Dorset County Council, The school converted to academy status under the Diocese of Salisbury in June 2014. The origins of the school date back to 1718 when the original ‘Blue Coat School’ was founded in Shaftesbury, and the school offered boarding from 1898 until 2023. Before its closure, it was one of only thirty-nine state boarding schools in England.

The school currently has around a thousand students who each belong to one of four houses. Melbury (Green), Duncliffe (Red), Hambledon (Blue) and Gold (Yellow). The boarding house underwent a £3 million refurbishment and expansion in 2012 and now has over one hundred students from around the world.

Shaftesbury School offers GCSEs, and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils. Shaftesbury School's sixth form provision has links to Sturminster Newton High School in Sturminster Newton, and students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs on two sites.

See also

• List of English and Welsh endowed schools (19th century)

References

1. ^ "Shaftesbury School". Get information about schools. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
2. "Home". Shaftesbury School. 24 February 2014. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
3. "Christian Ethos". Shaftesbury School. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
4. "The Shaftesbury Foundation".
5. "Update: Boarding at Shaftesbury School". Sherborne Area Schools' Trust. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
6. "About the Sixth Form". Shaftesbury School. Retrieved 19 April 2014.

External links

• Shaftesbury School official website

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