Summerhill School
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Key facts
- Type
- Independent day and boarding school
- Founder
- Alexander Sutherland Neill
- Local authority
- Suffolk
- Department for education urn
- 124870 Tables
- Ofsted
- Reports
- Principal
- Zoë Readhead
- Staff
- Approx. 10 teaching, 5 support
- Gender
- Coeducational
- Age
- 6 to 18
- Enrolment
- 78 pupils
- Houses
- San, Cottage, House, Shack, Carriage
- Publication
- The Orange Peel Magazine
- Website
- www .summerhillschool .co .uk
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- boarding school
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Suffolk
- Founded by
- A. S. Neill
- Official website
- www.summerhillschool.co.uk
- Image
- SummerhillSchool.jpg
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- inception
- 1921-03-13
- Commons category
- Summerhill School
- street address
- Summerhill School, Westward Ho, Leiston, Suffolk, IP16 4HY
- postal code
- IP16 4HY
- phone number
- +44-1728-830540
- native label
- Summerhill School
- P12749
- Miss Universe 1957
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Encyclopedic overview
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Summerhill School is an independent (i.e. fee-charging) day and boarding school in Leiston, Suffolk, England. It was founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill with the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around. It is run as a democratic community and is considered a democratic school; the running of the school is conducted in the school meetings, which anyone, staff or pupil, may attend, and at which everyone has an equal vote. These meetings serve as both a legislative and judicial body. Members of the community are free to do as they please, so long as their actions do not cause any harm to others, according to Neill's principle "Freedom, not Licence." This extends to the freedom for pupils to choose which lessons, if any, they attend. It is an example of both democratic education and alternative education.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Summerhill School” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.