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Jun 5, 2024 · Welcome to Central Foundation Boys’ School. This is a high performing all boys comprehensive school located in the heart of Tech City on the Silicon Roundabout in Shoreditch. We offer a friendly and caring environment where students can thrive.
Central Foundation Boys' School is a voluntary-aided comprehensive secondary school in the London Borough of Islington. It was founded at a meeting in 1865 and opened the following year in Bath Street, before moving to its current location on Cowper Street in 1869.
The Boys’ School buildings were badly damaged by bomb blast and fire during 1940 and the Governing Body was able to carry out little repair work until after the war ended in 1945.
Central Foundation boys school has delivered high quality education to the local area for over 150 years. We look to the past with pride and gratitude – and forward, to an exciting future.
Applications should be made through the standard unified secondary school application form or you can apply online here. If you do not live in Islington, you can still apply to Central Foundation using your home local authority’s form (i.e., the council to whom you pay your council tax).
Our school was founded by William Rogers, who set out the School’s values over 150 years ago, yet he still retains a significant influence upon this Sixth Form today. The school’s motto is ‘Spe Labore Fide’, which when translated from Latin, means ‘by hope, by work, by faith’.
Central Foundation is a popular and over-subscribed comprehensive school for boys aged 11 to 16, with a successful co-educational Sixth Form. A Central Foundation education involves providing our students with a wide range of educational experiences, including the academic, sporting, musical, dramatic, debating and public speaking.
