Bootham School
Bootham School is an independent Quaker boarding school in the city of York in North Yorkshire, England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19, and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016. There is also Bootham Junior School down the road commonly known as BJS.
The school was founded by the Religious Society of Friends and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson. He was followed by John Ford. The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster, in a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone.
The school's motto Membra Sumus Corporis Magni means "We are members of a greater body", quoting Seneca the Younger.Academics
Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables.Notable alumni
Notable former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson, historian A. J. P. Taylor, actor-manager Brian Rix, applied linguist Stephen Pit Corder, the leading child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, the famous social reformer Seebohm Rowntree, the Nobel peace prize winner of 1959 Philip John Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Chief Executive of Marks & Spencer, Stuart Rose.
