Roedean School

Roedean School was founded in 1885 by three sisters — Penelope, Dorothy and Millicent Lawrence — as a girls' boarding school in the seaside resort of Brighton, originally as the Brighton Wimbledon House School. The school moved in 1898 to its present 40-acre clifftop coastal campus on the South Downs east of Brighton, where the school occupies one of the most architecturally distinctive and beautifully sited campuses in any UK independent school — the principal red-brick buildings stand directly above the Channel cliffs with sweeping views across the English Channel toward the French coast.

The school is girls-only ages 11-18 with around 615 pupils and a substantial boarding population. The Headmistress is Niamh Green. The school is a member of the GSA and the Boarding Schools Association. Roedean's clifftop coastal location and red-brick Victorian buildings are among the iconic images of English girls' boarding-school architecture. The school operates a substantial bursary programme via the Roedean Foundation.