Eton College
Type: | Boarding |
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Age Range: | 13-18 |
Head's Name: | Simon Henderson |
Address: |
Head Master's Office Eton College Windsor Berkshire SL4 6DW United Kingdom |
Phone: | 01753 370800 |
Website: | www.etoncollege.com |
Division: | South Central |
School Profile
Eton has educated boys for nearly six centuries.
Eton is a full boarding school with no day or weekly students. Typically there are about 50 boys in a boarding house, ten in each year group. This offers a distinctive balance between small houses, which give a strong pastoral base, within a large, varied and challenging school.
A new boy to the school will come to know the people in his house community very well indeed – especially his house master who is principally responsible for him, and his dame, who looks after his domestic well-being. They offer support and encouragement in every aspect of a boy’s life but without unnecessary intrusion. It is a delicate and important balance: boys are encouraged to share problems with those that can help but are steered towards mature resolution of them through their own thought and effort.