[1] The school has it origins in 1529 within the chantry chapel of the nearby village of Coley.

In 1648 (the date the school classes as its founding year) Matthew Broadley, paymaster to Charles I, endowed a large sum of money to build a school on land donated by Samuel Sunderland of Coley Hall; the school opened its doors on its current site in 1661.

[citation needed] Two of the current school houses, Broadley and Sunderland, are named after the founders.

Originally an all-boys school, it became private (ISA, AGBIS) in the 1980s and began admitting girls at the same time.

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