Uppingham School

52°35′16″N 0°43′30″W / 52.58778°N 0.72500°W / 52.58778; -0.72500

Uppingham School
Location
High Street West, Uppingham Rutland , LE15 9QE England
Information
Type	Public school Private boarding and day school
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Established	1584; 440 years ago (1584)
Founder	Archdeacon Robert Johnson
Department for Education URN	120320 Tables
Headmaster	Richard J. Maloney
Gender	Coeducational
Age	13 to 18
Enrolment	c. 849 pupils and students
Houses	15 (9 boys', 6 girls')
Colour(s)	Blue and white
Former pupils	Old Uppinghamians
School Seal	Latin: Sig Com Gubern Scholar et Hospiciorum in Okeham et Uppingham in Com Rutl Common seal of the governors of the schools and hospitals of Oakham and Uppingham in the county of Rutland

|free_label_3 = |free_3 = |website = uppingham.co.uk }} Uppingham School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school for pupils 13-18) in Uppingham, Rutland, England, founded in 1584 by Robert Johnson, the Archdeacon of Leicester, who also established Oakham School. The headmaster, Richard Maloney, belongs to the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the school to the Rugby Group of British independent schools. Edward Thring was the school's best-known headmaster (in 1853–1887). His curriculum changes were adopted in other English public schools. John Wolfenden, headmaster from 1934 to 1944, chaired the Wolfenden Committee, whose report recommending the decriminalisation of homosexuality appeared in 1957. Uppingham has a musical tradition based on work by Paul David and Robert Sterndale Bennett. It has the biggest playing-field area of any school in England, in three separate areas of the town: Leicester to the west, Middle to the south, and Upper to the east.^[1]