Our History

Licensed Victuallers' School's co-educational history stretches back 200 years. The school's aim, to provide a caring yet challenging environment for each of its pupils, was set at its foundation by the proprietors, the Licensed Trade Charity, in 1803.

One of the Charity's original objectives was to educate the children of those working in the licensed drinks trade, and so a school was founded in Kennington in Lambeth in a ‘wholesome and airy environment'. As industrialisation increased and London spread outward, the school moved to another green field site in Slough in 1921.

When history repeated itself, the school moved again in the late 1980s to Ascot. Each move gave the Charity an ideal opportunity to incorporate the latest educational thinking in the design of the school, to provide a modern educational environment able to compete and perform successfully in the independent school marketplace. The school's rising pupil roll is testament to this success.