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Welcome to Marling School. For the 2024 Gloucestershire Grammar Schools' entrance test for entry in September 2025, click here. REGISTER FOR TEST.
Marling School’s governing body, and the leadership team, share a challenging vision for the school of raising aspirations, inspiring excellence and succeeding together. We want Marling School to be an exceptional and inclusive school which is the destination of choice for able students in the local area and beyond.
Marling School is the oldest secondary school in Stroud, having been founded in 1887 by Sir Samuel Marling, a local cloth manufacturer and former Liberal Member of Parliament, along with Sir Francis Hyett and Mr S.S. Dickinson.
Marling School is a non-fee paying, selective Grammar School for boys aged 11-16 years with a co-educational Sixth Form. To gain entry to Year 7, all pupils must sit and gain a qualifying rank in the Gloucestershire Grammar Schools' Entrance Test.
It includes the culture, attitudes and relationships which contribute to a high-quality experience for all students in our School. We provide a broad, knowledge rich, and rigorous curriculum, with challenge at its heart.
Welcome to Marling Sixth Form. It is a privilege to lead and work with the Sixth Formers here at Marling School. Combining the best traditional values of an outstanding grammar school with the forward thinking innovation of a forward-looking college, students here go on to achieve great success.
Marling School is a selective boy's grammar school with a coeducational sixth form, set in the Cotswold town of Stroud. The official motto of the School is 'Abeunt Studia in Mores' which may be freely translated as 'Let us go forward through study to character'.
