School
A significant proportion of the village centre is taken up by Monkton Combe School, an independent Christian boarding and day school of the British public school tradition, with 350 pupils — most of whom board. The Channel 4 Television presenter and investigative journalist Seyi Rhodes is among the School's former pupils.
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