It educates about 30 boys, aged 8–13 who sing in the Choir of Westminster Abbey, which takes part in state and national occasions as well as singing evensong every day (except Wednesday) and gives concert performances worldwide.

The organist and master of the choristers is Andrew Nethsingha, former Director of Music at St John’s College Cambridge.

The school is believed to have been founded around 1560, as the choir boys of Westminster Abbey have been educated there since Elizabethan times.

The three houses of the Choir School are named after the musicians John Blow, Henry Purcell and Orlando Gibbons, who were all Organists of Westminster Abbey.

The choir has travelled across the world to perform tours, most recently in Australia, the United States, China, Moscow, Rome, and Hungary.