Christ's Hospital

Christ's Hospital (also popularly known as the Blue-coat School) is a school which is now in Horsham, West Sussex, United Kingdom, and was formerly in London.

Organisation of the school

The School Houses are; (each House has an "A" and "B" side, each housing roughly 50 pupils)

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• Peele
• Thornton
• Middleton
• Coleridge
• Lamb
• Barnes
• Maine
• Leigh Hunt
• plus 2 Residencies for the upper 6th form (Grecians).

The Houses are named after notable Old Blues.

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The ages range from 11 (although "Leigh Hunt" was originally a prep school which took children from the ages of 8/9, in preparation for the senior school), and finishes at 18.

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The School has traditional names for each of its year groups. Starting at the youngest:

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• 2nd Form
• 3rd Form
• Little Erasmus (L.E.)
• Upper Forth (U.F.)
• Great Erasmus (G.E.)
• Deputy Grecians (Deps)
• Grecians