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| Sandroyd School | |
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 Main building | |
| Location | |
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Rushmore Park ,, SP5 5QD England | |
| Coordinates | 50°57′54″N2°04′02″W / 50.9650°N 2.0673°W /50.9650; -2.0673 |
| Information | |
| Type | Independent school Co-educational Day and boarding school |
| Motto | Niti Est Nitere (Latin) To strive is to shine |
| Established | 1880 |
| Founder | Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley |
| Department for Education URN | 126521Tables |
| Chairman of the Governors | Rhodri Thomas |
| Headmaster | Alastair Speers[1] |
| Age | 2 to 13[1] |
| Enrolment | Approx. 230[1] |
| Houses | Wylye, Nadder, Ebble, Avon |
| Colour | |
| Website | www |
Sandroyd School is anindependent co-educational preparatory school for day and boarding pupils aged 2 to 13 in the south of Wiltshire, England. The school's main building is Rushmore House, a 19th-century country house which is surrounded by the Rushmore Estate, now playing fields, woods and parkland.[2] Sandroyd School was originally established by Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley.
In the latest Independent Schools Inspectorate report carried out in 2023, Sandroyd School was judged as 'excellent' across all areas.[3]
The school is in the south ofBerwick St John parish, near the village ofTollard Royal and the county border with Dorset.
Sandroyd School was founded as a school for boys by L. H. Wellesley Wesley at Sandroyd House, Fairmile, inCobham, Surrey in 1880.[4] He was a great-grandson ofCharles Wesley.[5]
In 1939, in anticipation of the Second World War, the school moved to Rushmore House, home of thePitt-Rivers family. The house lies in the centre ofCranborne Chase on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset. A link between the two sites is that Sandroyd House was built in 1860 for the pre-Raphaelite painterJohn Roddam Spencer Stanhope by the architectPhilip Webb (1831–1915), the friend ofWilliam Morris, and it was Webb who remodelled the interior of Rushmore forGeneral Pitt Rivers twenty years later.[6]
In the 1960s the school purchased the freehold of the school site.[6] In 1995 the school started to accept day pupils, and in 2004 it became coeducational.[4]
Sandroyd School has a pre-prep and nursery which was opened in 2004, for children aged two to seven. This was described as 'excellent' in an ISI inspection report of 2023.
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Former pupils, known as Old Sandroydians, include:[7]
