| Motto | Fide (Have Faith) |
|---|---|
| Established | 1813 |
| Type | Independent Boarding & Day school |
| Headteacher | David Jarrett, M.A. |
| Chair of Governors | I.Plenderleith C.B.E. |
| Founder | Andrew Reed |
| Location | Sandy Lane Cobham Surrey KT11 2ES England |
| Local authority | Surrey County Council |
| Students | 588 |
| Gender | Boys, with a Co-educational sixth form |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Blathwayt, Bristowe, Capel & Mullens |
| Publication | Reedonian |
| Website | www.reeds.surrey.sch.uk |
Reed's School is an independent day and boarding school for boys located in Cobham, Surrey, England.
The school is a small school of only 588 pupils. It is boys only until the fifth form but admits girls in the sixth form. However, girls may also join the small on-site Dutch School (Rijnlands Lyceum, Cobham) in the second form. The school maintains strong connections with the Armed Forces.
The School's Patron is Her Majesty the Queen, who officially visited the school in 1997.
In 2008 the Sunday Times school league tables placed Reed's 299th with an improvement in 2009 to 159th place.[1] This was a massive improvement for the school but fell to 178th place[2] in 2010.
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The institution was founded in 1813 by Andrew Reed as the "London Orphan Asylum", a charitable boarding school to "maintain, clothe, and educate respectable fatherless children of either sex, who are without means adequate to their support, wherever resident".[3] The orphanage was sponsored by a host of notables including the Duke of Wellington.
Initially the Asylum used two houses; one at Hackney Road, Shoreditch for the boys and one in Bethnal Green for the girls.[4]
The first unified site was at Lower Clapton Road, Clapton was bought in 1820 with the children moving into new buildings in 1825.[5] There were 206 pupils in 1826 and 453 in the 1860s. Only the facade of the classical-style building still remains.[6]
The Asylum moved to Watford in 1871 after a serious outbreak of typhus in London.[3][5] It was renamed "London Orphan School" in 1915 and then "Reed's School" in 1939. In the 1980s the buildings were converted into residential accommodation; being near to Watford Junction station they are convenient for commuters.
In World War II the school was evacuated from Watford; the boys to the Seymour Hotel, Totnes and the girls to a number of houses near Towcester. The site was used as an Army hospital and then by the Ministry of Labour.[4]
Reed's School moved to its present site in Cobham, Surrey, in 1946. It began to take fee-paying pupils in 1958, but retains its charitable element, with Foundation Scholarships for boys who have lost one or both parents.
The school is made up of four houses, named after school benefactors:
In interhouse competitions, the four houses compete for the Edmonson Cup.
Years One and Two in the School are separated into 'The Close', which has its own competitive houses named after sister locations: