King Edward's School is an independent, co-educational boarding school of 500 pupils aged between eleven and eighteen. Boys and girls enter at eleven, twelve or thirteen years of age. Half the pupils are boys and half are girls, a balance which is carefully preserved and which is reflected on the staff. Although the great majority are boarders, there are also just over a hundred day pupils from the surrounding towns and villages of Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire, who play a full and valuable part in the life of the School community.
The boys and girls are housed in modern boarding houses, built in the 1970s. They are designed in pairs so that they share common rooms, house libraries, kitchens and television rooms, whilst still preserving their separate identities. For music and drama competitions, they enter as a paired house of a hundred children, but for sporting competitions, they revert into a boys' or a girls' house as appropriate.
King Edward's offers substantial bursaries to enable children who have a particular need for boarding to be at the school. Approximately one third of the pupils are in this category. The remainder have chosen the school for its special tradition as a caring and charitable foundation, its long experience of co-educational boarding, its excellent facilities and its high academic standards.
