Traditional UK Boarding Schools
(Public Schools)

Traditional British boarding schools have been around for a long time as noted above. They were originally built to educate the monarchy and the aristocracy and then later, as the industrial revolution changed the world, the offspring of merchants, industrialists and the officers from the British armed forces. Many of these schools produce amongst the best examination results in the country sending large numbers of students to the most competitive universities in the UK, including Oxford and Cambridge.

They are renowned for the teaching of a "well-rounded" education, which puts great stock in the benefits of spiritual and physical education as well as academic teaching. The weekly timetable of traditional schools reflects this with time being put aside for sports, music and other activities aimed at developing life skills. Overseas students would normally stay in dormitory accommodation during their stay at a traditional school. Older students may get a single room in the later years.