Houses
A House is a component of the school community and a place where pupils reside and engage in private study. Normally, a pupil remains at his chosen House until he or she leaves the school. Each house has its own colours. Competitions are regularly arranged between the Houses in a range of academic, artistic and sporting activities. With the exceptions of School House and Ellerslie House, the eleven houses at Malvern are named with numbers 1 to 9, a system which used to be used at Roedean School, a girls' school founded by the sisters of the Old Malvernian judge Sir Paul Ogden Lawrence. The houses, in order of foundation are:
| House | Sex | House Colours | |
| School House | Boys | Black, Magenta and Blue | |
| No. 1 | Boys | Red and White | |
| No. 2 | Boys | Blue and White | |
| No. 3 | Girls | Light Blue | |
| No. 4 | Girls | Maroon | |
| No. 5 | Boys | Red and Black | |
| No. 6 | Girls | Light Yellow | |
| No. 7 | Boys | Purple and Black | |
| No. 8 | Girls | Pink | |
| No. 9 | Boys | Green and Black | |
| Ellerslie House | Girls | Teal |
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“In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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Against his unacquaintances the rich
Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged.
Conservatives, they don’t know what to save.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)