Malvern College

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Malvern College is a coeducational English public school for pupils aged 13 to 18, founded in 1865. It is located at Malvern, Worcestershire, England, on the Malvern Hills.

It was originally an all boys school, but is now coeducational, having absorbed many buildings of the once adjacent Ellerslie girls school. It is not to be confused with Malvern Girls' College, which is a separate school. Its junior school is called Hillstone, which again was a separate boys preparatory school until the early 1990s.

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History

The founding of Malvern College came about as a result of the development of Malvern itself. As Malvern rose to prominence as a result of its developing tourism and health attractions (its hills, spa and developed transport infrastructure), the college was founded by a group of local businessmen. Opening in January 1865, it originally hosted not more than 24 boys, who were taught by six masters. From this initially small base, Malvern College grew to accommodate 290 boys by 1877.

During the Second World War the college's premises were occupied by the Telecommunications and Radar Establishment. Potentially, it was also the site that Parliament would have moved to if London had ever been invaded by the Germans.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Malvern was one of the first schools in Britain to offer the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in the Sixth Form.

It is a school with excellent academic performance.

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