City of London School

City of London School
Address
107 Queen Victoria Street London, EC4V 3AL United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°30′41″N 00°05′56″W / 51.51139°N 0.09889°W / 51.51139; -0.09889
Information
Type	Public school Private day school
Motto	Latin: Domine Dirige Nos
Established	1442; 582 years ago (1442)
Founder	John Carpenter
Department for Education URN	100003 Tables
Chair of The Board of Governors	Tim Levene
Headmaster	Alan Bird
Staff	122
Gender	Boys
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1018~
Houses	Abbott, Beaufoy, Carpenter, Hale, Mortimer, Seeley
Colour(s)	Black and red
Publication	The Citizen (weekly) City Lights (termly) The Chronicle (annual)
Former pupils	Old Citizens
Affiliations	City of London Corporation HSBC The Rifles
Endowed	1442
Website	https://www.cityoflondonschool.org.uk

The City of London School, also known as CLS and City, is a private day school for boys in the City of London, England, on the banks of the River Thames next to the Millennium Bridge, opposite Tate Modern. It is a partner school of the City of London School for Girls and the City of London Freemen's School. All three schools receive funding from the City's Cash.^[1] It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). It is one of the most academically selective and successful schools in the country.^{[citation needed]}

The school was founded by a private act of Parliament in 1834, following a bequest of land in 1442 for poor children in the City of London. The original school was established at Milk Street, moving first to the Victoria Embankment in 1879 and subsequently to its present site on Queen Victoria Street in 1986.

Former pupils, known as Old Citizens, who have attained eminence in various fields are former UK Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, First World War hero Theodore Bayley Hardy, Nobel Prize–winning scientists Frederick Gowland Hopkins and Peter Higgs, Justice of the Supreme Court Lawrence Collins, Historian John Robert Seeley, England cricket captain Mike Brearley, British chemist and entrepreneur William Henry Perkin, Booker Prize-winning authors Kingsley Amis and Julian Barnes, Hollywood film director Michael Apted, and actor Daniel Radcliffe.

The school provides day education to about 1,000 boys aged 11 to 18 and employs approximately 100 teaching staff and around another 100 non-teaching staff.^[2][3] The majority of pupils enter at 11, some at 13 and some at 16 into the Sixth Form. Admissions are based on an entrance examination and an interview, with the exception of pupils educated at the City Junior School, who are given an automatic place at 11+.