Eton College, Berkshire - Library in 1816 - postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Eton College Library in 1816
• Publisher:  none given [the college?], c.1950s
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Eton College, often informally referred to as Eton, is a British independent boarding school located in Eton, near Windsor in England. It educates over 1,300 pupils, aged between 13 and 18 years and was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as ""The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"".^[1]

Eton is one of nine English independent schools, commonly referred to as ""public schools"", included in the original Public Schools Act 1868. Following the public school tradition, Eton is a full boarding school, which means all pupils live at the school, and is one of four such remaining single-sex boys' public schools in the United Kingdom (the others being Winchester College, Harrow School and Radley College) to continue this practice. It has educated nineteen British Prime Ministers and generations of aristocracy, and has been referred to as the chief nurse of England's statesmen.

About 20% of pupils at Eton receive financial support, through a range of bursaries and scholarships.^[2] The headmaster, Tony Little, says that Eton is developing plans to allow any boy to attend Eton, whatever his parents' income, and that around 250 boys currently receive ""significant"" financial help from the School.^[3]

Eton has a long list of distinguished former pupils. David Cameron is the nineteenth British Prime Minister to have attended Eton,^[4][5] and has recommended that Eton set up a school in the state sector to help drive up standards.^[6] Eton now co-sponsors a state sixth form college in Newham, a deprived area of East London, called the London Academy of Excellence, opened in 2012,^[7] which is free of charge and aims to get all its students into higher education.^[8] In September 2014, Eton will open, and be the sole educational sponsor for, a new purpose-built co-educational state boarding and day school for around 500 pupils, Holyport College, in Maidenhead in Berkshire,^[9] with construction costing around £15 million, in which a fifth of places for day pupils will be set aside for children from poor homes, 21 boarding places will go to youngsters on the verge of being taken into care, and a further 28 boarders will be funded or part-funded through bursaries.^[10] These new developments will run alongside long-established courses that Eton has provided for pupils from state schools, most of them in the summer holidays (July and August). Launched in 1982, the Universities Summer School is an intensive residential course open to boys and girls throughout the UK who attend state schools, are at the end of their first year in the Sixth Form, and are about to begin their final year of schooling.^[11] The Brent-Eton Summer School, started in 1994, offers 40-50 young people from the London Borough of Brent, an area of inner-city deprivation, an intensive one-week residential course, free of charge, designed to help bridge the gap between GCSE and A-level.^[12] In 2008, Eton helped found the Eton, Slough, Windsor and Hounslow Independent and State School Partnership (ISSP), with six local state schools. The ISSP's aims are ""to raise pupil achievement, improve pupil self-esteem, raise pupil aspirations and improve professional practice across the schools"".^[13] Eton also runs a number of choral and English language courses during the summer months.

In the run-up to the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games and London 2012 Summer Paralympic Games, Eton's purpose-built Dorney Lake, a permanent, eight-lane, 2,200 metre course (about 1.4 miles) in a 400 acre park, officially known throughout the Games as Eton Dorney, provided training facilities for Olympic and Paralympic competitors, and during the Games, hosted the Olympic and Paralympic Rowing competitions as well as the Olympic Canoe Sprint event,^[14] attracting over 400,000 visitors during the Games period (around 30,000 per day), and voted the best 2012 Olympic venue by spectators.^[15] Access to the 400-acre parkland around the Lake is provided to members of the public, free of charge, almost all the year round.^[16]

In the past, Eton has educated generations of British and foreign aristocracy, and for the first time, members of the Royal family, Prince William and his brother Prince Harry, in contrast to the Royal tradition of male education at either naval college or Gordonstoun, or by Palace tutors. Entry standards are tough, and registration at birth has been consigned to the past,^[17] and by the mid-1990s, Eton ranked among Britain's top three schools in getting its pupils into Oxford and Cambridge.^[18]

Eton has traditionally been referred to as ""the chief nurse of England's statesmen"",^[19] and has been described as the most famous public school in the world.^[20] Early in the 20th century, a historian of Eton wrote, ""No other school can claim to have sent forth such a cohort of distinguished figures to make their mark on the world.""^[21]

The Good Schools Guide called the school ""the number one boys' public school,"" adding, ""The teaching and facilities are second to none.""^[22] The school is a member of the G20 Schools Group.

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period=1945 - present

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