Shrewsbury School

Shrewsbury School is an English co-educational independent school for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, founded by Royal Charter in 1552. The present campus, to which the school moved in 1882, is on the banks of the River Severn.Shrewsbury school is one of the original seven public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. It was originally a boarding school for boys; girls have been admitted into the Sixth Form since 2008 and there are approximately 130 day pupils. Since 2014 Shrewsbury School has been fully co-educational. Pupils are admitted at the age of 13 by selective examination. For approximately ten per cent of the pupils, English is a second or additional language.The school's old boys - or "Old Salopians" - include naturalist Charles Darwin; poet Sir Philip Sidney; Sidney's biographer, Fulke Greville, whose virtues extolled the chivalrous code of his era; Astronomer Royal Martin Rees; authors Samuel Butler and Nevil Shute; broadcaster John Peel; and comedian and writer Michael Palin.