The Skinners' School (formally The Skinners' Company's School for Boys), established in 1887, is a grammar school in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. It was founded by the Worshipful Company of Skinners, a London Livery Company, in response to the demand for education in the region. The School today remains an all-boys grammar school, recently awarded specialist status in Science in recognition of its excellent science teaching. The current ...
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The Skinners' School (formally The Skinners' Company's School for Boys), established in 1887, is a grammar school in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. It was founded by the Worshipful Company of Skinners, a London Livery Company, in response to the demand for education in the region. The School today remains an all-boys grammar school, recently awarded specialist status in Science in recognition of its excellent science teaching. The current roll is 768 pupils, of whom around 210 are in the Sixth Form.
The Skinners' School in Tunbridge Wells was the second school to be founded by The Worshipful Company of Skinners. The first Skinners' Company school, founded in Tonbridge, was called the Sir Andrew Judd's free school (now called Tonbridge School) which, by the late Victorian era, started to accept a greater majority of fee paying borders, leaving the locals of Tonbridge without an education (a situation made worse by the 1870 Forster Education Act). As a result the Skinners'...
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