Tring School is a state secondary school with approximately 1,500 pupils aged between 11 and 18. It is located on Mortimer Hill on the east side of the town of Tring, Hertfordshire, England. It is also a designated specialist Humanities College. Tring School includes a sixth form with approximately 300 students. The school was founded by the Church of England and remains a voluntary controlled Church foundation, administered and supported by Hert...
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Tring School is a state secondary school with approximately 1,500 pupils aged between 11 and 18. It is located on Mortimer Hill on the east side of the town of Tring, Hertfordshire, England. It is also a designated specialist Humanities College. Tring School includes a sixth form with approximately 300 students. The school was founded by the Church of England and remains a voluntary controlled Church foundation, administered and supported by Hertfordshire County Council, with five of its Governors being nominated by the Diocesan Board of Education of the St Albans Diocese. Tring is the second largest school in Hertfordshire after Queens' School.
In the early 19th century, the only education local children received was from the church-run school of St Peter and St Paul's, which taught around 240 pupils together in the Vestry Hall. However this was insufficient because the school only operated on Sundays and, in the opinion of the Brougham inspectors of 1811 at least, was severely...
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