The School
Downside School is a Roman Catholic public school for boys and girls from the age of 11 to 18 years, attached to the monastery. As in most Roman Catholic schools in the 21st century, non-Catholic students are accepted.
During the nineteenth century Downside remained a small monastic school. Dom Leander Ramsay who was the founder of modern Downside. He planned the new buildings that opened in 1912 and now form two sides of the Quad.
The school is controlled by trustees who are the Abbot and six monks from Downside Abbey.
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