St Edward's School, Oxford
St. Edward's School (also colloquially known as "Teddies") is a co-educational independent boarding school (sometimes referred to as a public school) located in Summertown, Oxford, England. The school is located on the Woodstock Road in the north of the city close to the suburb of Summertown. In 2007 it was voted by the Country Life Magazine as number one in the top ten schools in the UK. The Good Schools Guide described the school as "a less grand place than its obvious competitors and less pressurising than some, but offering every kind of opportunity in a highly privileged and civilised setting."
The school has 11 boarding houses which have an average of 60 members. The school is part of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the Oxfordshire Independent and State School Partnership. At the start of the 2011-12 academic year the school had 657 pupils paying £22,929 per year for day fees and £29,805 per year for Boarding.
The school teaches the GCSE and A-Level syllabuses. Since 2008 the school has begun to teach the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme following the trend set by other public schools.
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