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Welcome to Read School, a co-educational day and boarding school in North Yorkshire. In line with the noble legacy of our founder, Charles Reade, our mission is to create a warm and welcoming school for pupils of all abilities and walks of life.
We are academically non-selective and socially inclusive, offering a vibrant and supportive community in which to learn and grow. Read School was founded in 1667 and strives to be the independent day and boarding school of choice in the local area.
At Read School, we believe that all pupils should be able to access all areas of the curriculum and we provide a balanced, well-focused and wide-ranging programme of study which both challenges and encourages our pupils to be responsible for their own learning.
Read School, Drax is a boarding, day, and independent school, based in the rural village of Drax, near Selby, North Yorkshire, England. Formerly a boys' school, it became co-educational in 1991. As of 2023 it hosts approximately 265 boys and girls between the ages of 4–18, comprising a senior school of approximately 210 and a junior school of ...
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The Read School is pleasantly situated in the rural village of Drax, with very convenient road access (M62, M18, A1). The school operates five transport routes bringing local children in from the residential areas around Selby, Goole, Howden, up from Doncaster, Hatfield and Thorne, and from Monk Fryston and Sherburn in Elmet in the west. Main ...
Read School was founded in 1667 by Charles Reade, a local lawyer and philanthropist to provide ‘proper’ education to the poor boys of the parish of Drax. 351 years later, the School is still committed to the ideals of its founder.
