Woodbridge School

The school was founded in 1577 but, like many others, lapsed during the English Civil War. It was re-established in 1662. The Free School, Woodbridge, was an expression of the new confidence in England following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. Local citizens contributed to the founding of the school in 1662, appointing a schoolmaster on an annual salary of £25 to teach, without charge, ten "sons of the meaner sort of the inhabitants of the town". Additional pupils paid an annual fee of £1. After a difficult start, including the ravages of the plague in 1666, the school flourished in the eighteenth century. By the mid-nineteenth century, the cramped School building was proving…

The senior school is a co-educational day school with a boarding component for Years 7 to 13. It offers GCSE, IGCSE and AS/A Level examinations. The day pupil body is divided into four houses, Annott, Burwell, Seckford and Willard. There is a boarding house, known as School House, which provides a home to mainly international students. The school's music activities include a symphony orchestra, chamber orchestra and choral society as well as smaller ensembles. There is a professional theatre, the Seckford Theatre. There is a separate junior school, Woodbridge Prep School (formerly "The Abbey School"), for Years 3 to 6, housed in Thomas Seckford's mansion in the centre of the town. The site…