Bootham School

Bootham School
Motto Membra sumus corporis magni
(We are members of a greater body)
Established 6 January 1823 (1823-01-06)
Type Independent school
Religion Quaker
Headmaster Chris Jeffery[1]
Deputy Head Martyn Beer
Founder Religious Society of Friends
Location Bootham
York
North Yorkshire
YO30 7BU
England
DfE URN 121722 Tables
Students 605 as of January 2016
Gender Mixed
Ages 3–19
Houses Firbank
Pendle
Brigflatts
Swarthmore
Publication Bootham Magazine
Boarding Houses Rowntree
Fox
Evelyn
Former Pupils Bootham Old Scholars Association
Website www.boothamschool.com
Bootham School, Bootham, York. The main building was originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone

Bootham School is an independent Quaker boarding school in the city of York in North Yorkshire, England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19, and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016.[2]

The school was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson (1823-1828). He was followed by John Ford (1828-c.1865). The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster, in a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone.

The school's motto Membra Sumus Corporis Magni means "We are members of a greater body", quoting Seneca the Younger (Epistle 95, 52).

Academics

Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables.[3]

Notable alumni

Well known former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson ("father of fractals"), historian A.J.P Taylor, applied linguist Stephen Pit Corder, the leading child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, the famous social reformer Seebohm Rowntree, the Nobel peace prize winner of 1959 Philip John Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood and Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer Stuart Rose.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Christopher Jeffrey named as new Bootham School headteacher". York Press. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Bootham School". EduBase. Department for Education. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "The Top 100 Independent Schools at A-level" at independent.co.uk.

Further reading

  • Bootham School Register. Compiled under the direction of a committee of O.Y.S.A., 1914, with revised eds. 1935, 1971, 2010.
  • JS Rowntree, Friends' Boys' School, York a Sketch of its History 1829–1878 (1879)
  • FE Pollard Bootham School 1823–1923 (JM Dent and Sons, 1926)
  • SK Brown Bootham School York 1823–1973 (author, 1973)

Coordinates: 53°57′53″N 1°05′13″W / 53.96472°N 1.08694°W / 53.96472; -1.08694

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