In 1881, the East Anglian School for Boys was founded in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, aiming to provide a Methodist education for boys. By 1935, it had outgrown its original site in the town and, led by Rev Dr H.B Workman, Secretary of the Methodist Education Committee, and the Headmaster, Dr John Skinner (1924-1951), the school moved to the Culford estate in the nearby village of the same name. Over the previous four centuries, the Hall and park had been owned by the Bacon, Cornwallis, Benyon and then Cadogan families before the school arrived. At the same time, the East Anglian School for Girls was established in Bury St Edmunds, and, except for a period of evacuation during World War II, remained there until 1972 when the schools merged and Culford School became one of the first co-educational boarding schools in the country.

Today, Culford School provides an education to over 900 boys and girls, aged 1 to 18 years, to make them ready for life. Boarding is available from age 7 and in the Senior School more than half the children are boarders, the majority coming from East Anglia and the London area. Culford is proud of its outstanding pastoral care and for our pupils’ superb academic and extra-curricular achievements. 

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