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Dragon School

The Dragon School is a private school across two sites in Oxford, England. The Dragon Pre-Prep (children aged 4–7) and Prep School (children aged 8–13) are both co-educational schools. The Dragon Prep School was founded in 1877 as the Oxford Preparatory School. It takes day pupils and boarders.

"Old Dragon" redirects here. For other uses, see Dragon (disambiguation).

Dragon School

51°46′05″N 1°15′23″W / 51.76818°N 1.25639°W / 51.76818; -1.25639

Preparatory day and boarding school and Pre-Prep school

Latin: Arduus ad Solem
("Reach for the Sun")

Church of England

1877

A. E. Clarke

123288 Tables

Emma Goldsmith (Prep); Annie McNeile (Pre-Prep)

Coeducational

4 to 13

800+

9

Navy and yellow   

The Draconian

Old Dragons

www.dragonschool.org

Originally established for boys, the Dragon School also accepted a small number of day girls with a close connection to the school, first admitting girls as boarders in 1994. The school educates children aged 4 to 13 in two sites in North Oxford: Bardwell Road and Richards Lane. Boarding starts at 8 and there are 10 boarding houses, including one weekly-boarding house. Dragon Lane runs along the edge of the school immediately to the west.

A. E. Clarke 1877–1886

("Skipper") 1886–1920

C. C. Lynam

A. E. Lynam ("Hum") 1920–1942

J. H. R. Lynam ("Joc") 1942–1965

("Inky") 1965–1989[7][8][9]

R. K. Ingram

M. W. A. Gover ("Guv") 1972–1989 (head of day pupils, co-headmaster with "Inky")[11]

[10]

N. P. V. Richardson 1989–1992

H. E. P. Woodcock 1992–1993

R. S. Trafford 1993–2002

J. R. Baugh 2002–2017

Crispin Hyde-Dunn 2017–2021

[12]

Mrs E. C. Goldsmith 2021–present

The following have been Heads of the school, several from the Lynam family:[5]

Olympic hockey player

PJ Wilson

located at the opposite end of Bardwell Road

Wychwood School

Alan Macfarlane, Dragon Days: The Dragon School, Oxford, 1949–1955 (CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1492129400)

James Bruce Lockhart

Official website