List of oldest schools

• The King's School, Canterbury, England (597) ==Seventh century==

• King's School, Rochester, England (604) • St Peter's School, York, England (627) • Thetford Grammar School, England (631), first conclusive evidence (1114) • Royal Grammar School Worcester, England (685), first conclusive evidence (1291) • Beverley Grammar School, (contested) oldest Grammar School in England (700) ==Eighth century==

• Sherborne School, England (705) • , Eichstätt, Germany ( 740), founded by Willibald • Rabanus-Maurus-Schule (Domgymnasium), Fulda, Germany Fulda monastery school(748), founded by Sturmi • Gymnasium Paulinum, Germany (797) • Gymnasium Theodorianum, Germany (799) ==Ninth century==

• Gymnasium Carolinum, Osnabrück, Germany (804), founded by Charles the Great (Charlemagne) • , Hildesheim, Germany ( 815), founded by Louis the Pious • , Xanten, Germany (exact founding date not clear) ==Tenth century==

• Wells Cathedral School, England ( 909) • Warwick School, England (914) • St Albans School, Hertfordshire, England (948) • The Minster School, Southwell, England ( 956) • King's Ely, England (970) • Benedictine High School of Pannonhalma, Hungary (996), founded by Grand Prince Géza of Hungary ==Eleventh century==

• Roskilde Cathedral School, Denmark ( 1020) • Suzhou High School, China (1035) • Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík, Iceland (1056) • Viborg Katedralskole, Denmark ( 1060) • Katedralskolan, Lund, Sweden (1085), originally part of Denmark, despite the many Danish-Swedish wars continuously operating since it was founded. • Salisbury Cathedral School, England (1091) • Norwich School, England (1096) • Abingdon School, England (1100, endowed 1256, refounded 1563) ==Twelfth century==

• St Paul's Cathedral School, England (1123) • High School of Glasgow, Scotland (pre-1124) • Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland (1128) • Stirling High School, Scotland (1129) • Stiftsgymnasium Melk, Austria (pre-1140) • Bristol Cathedral School, England (1140) • The Prebendal School, England (1116) • Ribe Cathedral School, Denmark (1145) • Trondheim Cathedral School, Norway ( 1152) • Bergen Cathedral School, Norway (1153) • Oslo Cathedral School, Norway (1153) • Derby School, England (1160) • , France (1161) • Westminster School, England (1179) • Kirkwall Grammar School, Scotland ( 1200) • Paulo Pontine, later Bedford School, Bedford, England (Date Uncertain, refounded by Edward VI 1552, see below) ==Thirteenth century==

• Colchester Royal Grammar School, England (pre-1206) • Metropolitanskolen, Denmark (1209) • Riga State Gymnasium No.1, Latvia (1211) • Thomasschule zu Leipzig, Germany (1212) • Ayr Academy, Scotland (1233) • Lancaster Royal Grammar School, England (1235) • High School of Dundee, Scotland (1239) • , Ji'an, China (1241) • Harrow School, England (1243, Royal Charter in 1572) • Katedralskolan, Uppsala, Sweden (exact year of foundation not known, by tradition 1246) • , Germany (1250) • , Dordrecht, The Netherlands (1253) (oldest school in The Netherlands) • Abingdon School, England (1256) • Aberdeen Grammar School, Scotland (1257) • , The Netherlands (exact year of foundation unknown, but first mentioned in 1274) • Cathedral School in Turku, Finland (1276) • King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth, England (1276) • Ruthin School, Denbighshire, Wales (1284) • King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon (1295 refounded 1553) • Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden, The Netherlands (first mentioned 1323, but year of foundation is estimated mid 13th Century) ==Fourteenth century==

• Stamford School, England ( 1309 but re-endowed 1532) • Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden, The Netherlands (First mentioned in 1323, but suspected to be founded in the second half of the thirteenth century) • Northallerton School, England (1323) • Hanley Castle High School, England (1326) • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, England (1327) • Gymnasium Haganum, The Netherlands (1327) • Gymnasium Erasmianum, The Netherlands (1328) • , Celle, Germany (1328) • , Warendorf, Germany (1329) • The King's School, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England (1329) refounded (1528) • Bourne Grammar School Lincolnshire, England (1330) • Hull Grammar School, England (1330) • King's School Ottery St. Mary, England (1335) • Barlaeus Gymnasium, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1342) • Bablake School, England (1344) • Instituto San Isidro, Spain (1346) • St George's School, Windsor Castle, England (1348) • Ripon Grammar School, Ripon, North Yorkshire. (1348) Date is earliest record but the foundation may be much earlier (7thC) but continuity is uncertain. • Doncaster Grammar School / Hall Cross School, England (1350) • Beauchamp College, England (1359) • Sint Maartensschool (name later changed into Praedinius Gymnasium), The Netherlands (1375) • Prince Henry's High School, England (c1376) • , Amersfoort, The Netherlands (1376) • New College School, England (1379) • Wisbech Grammar School, Wisbech, England (1379) • Knox Academy, Scotland (1379) • Samuel von Brukenthal National College, Sibiu, Romania (1380) - originally part of Hungary • Winchester College, Winchester, England (1382) • Hereford Cathedral School, Hereford, England (1384) • Katharine Lady Berkeley's School, Wotton-under-Edge, England (1384) • Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem, the Netherlands (1389) • Halepaghen Grammar School, Germany (1390) • Penistone Grammar School, Penistone, England (1392) • Cathedral School of Vilnius, Lithuania (founded before 1397) • Ipswich School, Suffolk, England (1399) (first record of existence) • Chorister School, Durham, England ( 1400) ==Fifteenth century==

• , Sweden (1406) • Oswestry School, England (1407) • Durham School, England (1414) (possibly 635) • Aberdeen Grammar School, Scotland (1418) (possibly 1257) • Royal Latin School, England (1423) • Brechin High School, Scotland (1429) • Sponne School, England (1430) • St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir School, Dublin, Ireland (1432) • Sevenoaks School, England (1432) • Eton College, England (1440) • Chipping Campden School, England (c1440) • King's College School, Cambridge, England (1441) • City of London School, England (1442) • Adams' Grammar School, England (1442) • Bridlington School, England (1447) • Dreikönigsgymnasium, Cologne, Germany (1450) • Phanar Greek Orthodox College, Istanbul, Turkey (1454) • St. Bartholomew's School, England (1466) • Dunfermline High School, Scotland (1468) • Bromsgrove School (record of a chantry school 1476, re-founded 1553) • Magdalen College School, Oxford, England (1480) • Galatasaray High School, Istanbul, Turkey (1481) • Skegness Grammar School, England (1483) • Stockport Grammar School, England (1487) • Ermysted's Grammar School, England (1492) (first record of existence) • King Edward VI School, Lichfield, England (1495) • Loughborough Grammar School, England (1495) • The Prebendal School, England (1497) • Queen Elizabeth's School, Wimborne Minster, England (1497) • Alcester Grammar School, England (1498) ==Sixteenth century==

• King's School, Macclesfield, England, (1502) • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, England (1509) • Royal Grammar School, Guildford, England (1509) • St Paul's School, London, England (1509) • Giggleswick School, England (1512) • Lewes Old Grammar School, England (1512) • Wolverhampton Grammar School, England (1512) • Nottingham High School, England (1513) • Pocklington Grammar School, England (1514) • Manchester Grammar School, England (1515) • Gillingham School, Dorset, England (1516) • Bolton School, England (1516) (exact year of foundation unknown, but first mentioned in 1516) • Cranbrook School, Kent, England (1518) • King's School, Bruton, England (1519) • Lessing-Gymnasium, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (1519) • Dame Bradbury’s, Saffron Walden, England (1521), refounding school present at site since 1317 • Sedbergh School, England (1525) • Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne, England (1525) • Boteler Grammar School, Warrington, England (1526) • Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, England (1527) • Hermann-Tast-Schule, Germany (1527) • Bingley Grammar School, West Yorkshire, England (1529) • Magnus Grammar School, England (1531) • Bristol Grammar School, England (1532) • Nicolas Gibson Free School now the Coopers' Company and Coborn School, England (1536) • Elizabethan Grammar School now Wyggeston and Queen Elizabeth I College, England (1536) • , Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (1537) • Kilkenny College. Ireland (1538) • Jean Sturm Gymnasium, France (1538) • The Crypt School, Gloucester, England (1539) • Christ College, Brecon, Wales (1541) • The King's School, Peterborough, England (1541) • The King's School, Worcester, England (1541) • The King's School, Gloucester, England (1541) • The King's School, Chester, England (1541) • Berkhamsted School, Hertfordshire, England (1541) • Northampton School for Boys, Northampton, England (1541) • King Henry VIII School, Abergavenny, Wales (1542) • Dauntsey's School, Wiltshire, England (1542) • , Dortmund, Germany (1543) • , Nijmegen, Netherlands (1544) • The Prescot School, Knowsley, England (1544) • , Düsseldorf, Germany (1545) • Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, England (1546) • St. Patrick's Cathedral Grammar School, Dublin, Ireland (1547) • Colyton Grammar School, Colyford, Devon, England (1546) • Bradford Grammar School, Bradford, Yorkshire, England (1548) • Kirkham Grammar School, England (1549) • Maidstone Grammar School, Maidstone, England (1549) • King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds, England (1550) • King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, Essex, England (1551) • Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, England (1551) • Leeds Grammar School, Leeds, England (1552) • King Edward's School, Birmingham, England (1552) • King Edward's School, Bath England (1552) • Shrewsbury School, England (1552) • Christ's Hospital, England (1552) • Hutton Grammar School, England (1552; endowed 1522) • Akademisches Gymnasium (Vienna), Austria (1553) • Tonbridge School, England (1553) • Bromsgrove School, England (1553) • King Edward VI School, Southampton, England (1553) • Queen Mary's Grammar School, England (1554) • Boston Grammar School, England (1555) • Gresham's School, England • Ripon Grammar School, England (1555) • Laxton Grammar School, England (1556) • Hampton School, England (1556) • , Prague, Czech Republic (1556) • Brentwood School, England (1557) • Friars School, Bangor, Wales (1557) • Tadcaster Grammar School, England (1557) • , Gävle, Sweden (1557) (In 1669 absorbing , founded in 1640.) • Enfield Grammar School, England (1558) (absorbing and replacing the Enfield chantry-school 1398–1558). • Thomas Alleyne's High School, Uttoxeter, England (1558) • Repton School, England (1559) • Solihull School, England (1560) • Leith Academy, Scotland (1560) • Westminster Abbey Choir School, England (1560) • Kingston Grammar School, England (1561) • Colegio Nuestra Señora de Montesión, Spain (1561) • St Olave's Grammar School, England (1561) • Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, England (1561) • Queen Elizabeth's Academy, England (1561) • Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck, Austria (1562) • Elizabeth College, Guernsey (1563) • Sir Roger Manwood's School, England (1563) • Felsted School, England (1564) • Herlufsholm Boarding School, Denmark (1565) • Highgate School, England (1565) • Queen Elizabeth’s Free Grammar School for Boys Rivington England (1566) • Ashby School, England (1567) • Rugby School, England (1567) • The Royal School of Dunkeld, Scotland (1567) (Royal Charter granted in the name of King James VI of Scotland) • Richmond School, England (1568) • Bury Grammar School, England (1570) • St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School, England (1571) • Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet, England (1573) • Pate's Grammar School, England (1574) • Dartford Grammar School, England (1576) • Sutton Valence School, England (1576) • IES Séneca, Spain (1577) (founded in 1569 as Colegio de la Asunción, a boarding school for the poor) • Paisley Grammar School, Scotland (1577) • The Thomas Hardye School England (1579) • Vilnius University, Lithuania (1579) • Kirkcudbright Academy (earliest record of existence 1582) • St. Bees School, England (1583) • , Como, Italy (1583) • Oakham School, England (1584) • Uppingham School, England (1584) • Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne, England (1585) • Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, England (1586) • Spalding Grammar School, England (1588) • Joyce Frankland Academy, England (1588) (formerly Newport Free Grammar School) • Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, England (1591) • Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale, England (1591) • Stonyhurst College, England (1593) • Emanuel School, England (1594) • , Germany (1595) • Whitgift School, England (1596) • Aldenham School, England (1597) • Aylesbury Grammar School, England (1598) • Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham, England (1599) ==See also==