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===Maintained schools=== There are several [[primary school]]s in Reigate. Dovers Green School and Wray Common Primary School are members of the Greensand Multi-Academy Trust.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.greensandacademytrust.co.uk/dovers-green/ |title= Dovers Green School |author= <!--Not stated--> |publisher= Greensand Multi-Academy Trust |access-date= 29 September 2021 |archive-date= 18 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210118092744/https://www.greensandacademytrust.co.uk/dovers-green/ |url-status= live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.greensandacademytrust.co.uk/wray-common-primary-school/ |title= Wray Common Primary School |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= |publisher= Greensand Multi-Academy Trust |access-date= 29 September 2021 |archive-date= 18 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210118105849/https://www.greensandacademytrust.co.uk/wray-common-primary-school/ |url-status= live }}</ref> Sandcross Primary School is part of the Everychild Trust.<ref>{{cite news |last= Seymour |first= Jenny |date= 11 December 2017 |title= All you need to know about the forest school opening in Redhill's old law courts next September |work= Surrey Live |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/you-need-know-forest-school-13981873 |access-date= 5 July 2023 }}</ref> Reigate Parish Church Primary School was founded as the Reigate [[National school (England and Wales)|National School]]. Originally in West Street, it moved to London Road in 1854 and then to Blackborough Road in 1995.<ref>{{harvnb|Goss|1995|p=85}}</ref> Reigate Priory Junior School traces its origins to a non-denominational school, founded in 1852 in the High Street. It moved to Holmesdale Road in the 1860s and in 1993 moved to the priory, taking over the classrooms previously used by Reigate Priory Middle School.<ref name=Ward_1998_114-115/> The school educates children between the ages of 7 and 11 and is due to move to new premises on Cockshott Hill in 2023.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/deteriorating-reigate-priory-could-wedding-19481499 |title= Deteriorating Reigate Priory 'could be wedding venue, library, museum or posh restaurant' |last= Seymour |first= Jenny |date= 20 December 2020 |publisher= Surrey Live |access-date= 11 October 2021 |archive-date= 26 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210126195009/https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/deteriorating-reigate-priory-could-wedding-19481499 |url-status= live }}</ref> [[File:Reigate School, Surrey, main entrance.jpg|thumb|right|[[Reigate School]], main entrance]] [[Reigate School]] is a coeducational secondary school in Woodhatch. It educates children aged 11 to 16. It is part of the Greensand Multi-Academy Trust.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.greensandacademytrust.co.uk/reigate-school/ |title= Reigate School |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= |publisher= Greensand Multi-Academy Trust |access-date= 29 September 2021 |archive-date= 26 January 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210126144330/https://www.greensandacademytrust.co.uk/reigate-school/ |url-status= live }}</ref> It opened as the Woodhatch County Secondary School in September 1958.<ref>{{cite news |date= 20 June 1958 |title= Woodhatch School opening in September |work= Surrey Mirror |issue= 4273 |page= 5 }}</ref> [[The Royal Alexandra and Albert School]] traces its origins to an [[orphanage]] for children of Dissenters, founded in [[Hoxton]], London in 1759. The orphanage expanded rapidly and by 1769 had 28 boys and 25 girls between the ages of 6 and 9 in its care. It relocated several times during the following two centuries and, in 1943 it was renamed the Royal Alexandra School and was based on a {{convert|180|acre|ha|abbr=on|adj=on}} site at Duxhurst, near [[Salfords]].<ref>{{harvnb|Clarke|2005|p=3}}</ref> A separate institution, the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum was founded near [[Bagshot]] in 1864 and admitted its first 100 children in December of that year.<ref name=RAA_Timeline>{{cite web|url= http://www.raa-school.co.uk/timeline.asp |title= School Timeline |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Royal Alexandra & Albert School |access-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211002102706/http://www.raa-school.co.uk/timeline.asp |url-status= live}}</ref> It was renamed the Royal Albert School in 1942.<ref>{{harvnb|Clarke|2005|p=35}}</ref> The management of the Royal Alexandra and the Royal Albert Schools was merged in 1948 and the new organisation purchased the [[Gatton Park|Gatton Park estate]]. The following year, an Act of Parliament was passed to formally amalgamate the two institutions. Boarding accommodation was constructed at Gatton Park in 1950 and pupils were relocated from the Bagshot and Duxhurst sites in stages between 1948 and 1954.<ref name=RAA_Timeline/> Today, the Royal Alexandra and Albert School is a coeducational maintained boarding school,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.raa-school.co.uk/school_overview.asp |title= School Overview |author= <!--Not stated--> |year= 2021 |publisher= Royal Alexandra & Albert School |access-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211002102700/http://www.raa-school.co.uk/school_overview.asp |url-status= live }}</ref> educating 1125 children between the ages of 7 and 18.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/28/125279 |title= Royal Alexandra and Albert School |author= <!--Not stated--> |date= 8 October 2020 |publisher= Ofsted |access-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211002102658/https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/28/125279 |url-status= live }}</ref> [[File:Reigate College - geograph.org.uk - 1305570.jpg|thumb|right|[[Reigate College]]]] [[Reigate College]] is a coeducational [[sixth form college]] for students aged 16 to 19.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.reigate.ac.uk |title= Why choose Reigate College? |publisher= Reigate College |year= 2019 |access-date= 30 September 2021 |archive-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211002102700/https://www.reigate.ac.uk/ |url-status= live }}</ref> It opened in 1976 on Castlefield Road, to the east of the town centre.<ref>{{harvnb| Reigate_College_Prospectus|1985|p=5}}</ref> The main building, constructed in 1927, was previously occupied by the Reigate County School for Girls and was designed by the architecture firm Jarvis and Porter.<ref>{{harvnb|Goss|1995|p=81}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1305570 |title= Reigate College |last= Capper |first= Ian |publisher= UK Geograph |date= 16 May 2009 |access-date= 30 September 2021 |archive-date= 2 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211002102658/https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1305570 |url-status= live }}</ref>
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