| Motto | Clarior ex Ignibus Brighter out of the Flames |
|---|---|
| Religion | United Reform Church |
| Headmaster | Mr. Darryl Wideman |
| Location | Wrenthorpe Lane Wakefield West Yorkshire WF2 OPD England |
| Local authority | City of Wakefield |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 7–18 |
| Houses | Evans', Moore's, Spencer's, Yonge's |
| Colours | Yellow; Green; Blue; Red |
| Publication | The Silcoatian |
| Website | Silcoates School |
Silcoates School is a public (private) school in Wakefield, England. It was founded in 1820 as the Northern Congregational School at Silcoates House, for the board and education of the sons of non-conformist clergy; it was located close to Ossett and Horbury, which both had unusually large nonconformist populations.
It was a boys' boarding school until 1995, with pupils from all over of the world. Girls were admitted in the sixth form from 1976, with female boarders accommodated in the 'Coach House'. The school now exists as a co-educational day school with a large and attractive campus straddling the border between the West Yorkshire villages of Wrenthorpe and Alverthorpe.
The Silcoates School Foundation has three schools under its name: Silcoates School, Silcoates Sunny Hill House, and St Hilda's School. Silcoates has the most pupils, around 750 in total. The foundation caters for pupils from infancy up to eighteen.[1]
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The school's motto is Clarior ex Ignibus (brighter through the flames), commemorating the Great Fire of 1904 which forced the school to move into temporary exile in Saltburn, on the coast of North Yorkshire between Whitby and Middlesbrough.
There are four houses representing notable headmasters: