Students at top fee-paying institutions benefit from centuries of philanthropy originally intended to help the poor
Analysis: Green space better for young brains than we realisedbegin to appear, green and well cared for on the other side. Nestled among the rugby football and cricket pitches is an outdoor classroom that holds 30. Nearby is the rowing club, and New Hall, the theatre that seats 400.
The Guardian has been investigating the amount of green and open space available to students at the top private schools in England, in comparison with that enjoyed by a typical state school student. Using satellite tools and publicly available information, we mapped how much land each school owned, and then calculated how much of that was open space available to the students.
England’s earliest schools, some of which date back more than 1,000 years, were founded by kings or churches, and were not initially endowed with large amounts of land and wealth. In 1382 however, William of Wykeham founded Winchester College, and, as, has noted, “education was suddenly the new charity of choice for independently minded movers and shakers of the medieval period”.
Robert Aske, a century or so later, was a Yorkshireman who rose through the Haberdashers Company to become master haberdasher in 1685: part of his bequest to the company was financial backing for a school to educate 20 poor freemen of the company, now Haberdashers’ Boys’ school based in 100 acres in Hertfordshire, with annual fees of £19-24,000.
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