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A Touch of Glass

Given the task of finding a suitable "Ridgemere Hall", production manager Janet Bone eventually settled on Clayesmore School, a boarding school in Iwerne Minster, Dorset.

Alexander Faludy

The son of two teachers from Portsmouth, in 1995 Faludy gained a scholarship to Milton Abbey School, a boarding school in Dorset where one third of the children are dyslexic, after being bullied at his county school in Portsmouth.

Arsakeio

Initially it was a girls-only boarding school located at Panepistimiou Street in downtown Athens, purposed to train young teachers and send them (before 1913) to Macedonia, in order to help survival of the Greek language and culture.

Barli Development Institute for Rural Women

The Barli Development Institute for Rural Women in Indore is a Bahá'í inspired, though independent residential vocational education school providing programs for women in the vicinity of the city of Indore, India in the State of Madhya Pradesh as well as a base for outreach/non-residential training centers.

Battle Ground Academy

They boarded in private homes until the first dormitory was built in 1922, changing BGA to a boarding and day school.

Christchurch School

Christchurch School is a college-preparatory boarding school in Christchurch, Virginia, founded in 1921 by the Episcopal Church Diocese of Virginia and highly regarded for its dynamic, place-based Great Journeys Begin at the River program.

Christiansen Academy

Christiansen Academy (also known as Academia Christiansen or C.A.) was a celebrated private boarding school that provided an American-style education from kindergarten through grade 12 in Rubio, Táchira, Venezuela.

Cold Ash

Downe House School, a girls' boarding school, moved to Cold Ash in 1922 when it outgrew its original premises, Downe House, Charles Darwin's former home near Bromley in Kent.

Cooerwull Academy

The Cooerwull Academy was an independent, Presbyterian, day and boarding school for boys, located in Bowenfels, a small town on the western outskirts of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.

Dunn School, Los Olivos

Dunn School is a private, college prep boarding and day school for grades 6 - 12 located on 55 acres outside of Los Olivos, California.

Edward Connellan

He was educated as a boarder at Xavier College in Melbourne to complete his secondary education in 1927 and 1928.

Fairholme College

Fairholme College is an independent, day and boarding school for girls, located in Toowoomba, one of Australia's largest provincial cities, in South East Queensland, Australia.

Florida Central Academy

Florida Central Academy was college preparatory boarding school in Sorrento, Florida.

Global Vision Christian School

Global Vision Christian School is a private Christian boarding school located in Eumseong, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea.

Gustav Wyneken

The young Walter Benjamin's political aesthetics were greatly influenced by a stay (1905-1907) at a Wyneken boarding school (Haubinda in Thüringen) where he became close to Wyneken.

Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies

Hankuk Academy of Foreign Studies or HAFS is a private boarding school located in the northern part of Yongin, South Korea, and is the first Korean high school formed by a collaboration between the government and a university.

Hillerød

The settlement of Nødebo on the southeastern banks of Esrum Sø and enclosed by Gribskov, is home to the forestry boarding school of 'Skovskolen' (English: The Forest School) administered by the University of Copenhagen.

History of Brighton-Le-Sands, New South Wales

At the instigation of Arthur Aspinall, the Presbyterian Church was looking for a building suitable to establish a boarding school for the children of outback pastoralists.

International Bilingual School of Provence

The International Bilingual School of Provence is a mixed day and boarding school situated in Luynes on the outskirts of Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.

Inyathi High School

Inyathi High School (formerly, Inyathi Secondary School and prior to that Inyathi Mission) is a boarding co-educational secondary school in Inyathi, Zimbabwe.

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Gajanur

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Gajanur (JNVG) is a boarding school near Gajanur, Shimoga, India.

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kothali

Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Kothali (JNVK) is a boarding school near Belgaum, Belgaum, India.

Jürgen Budday

Jürgen Budday studied music education, church music and musicology at the Academy of Music in Stuttgart and, since 1979, has been teaching music at the Evangelical Seminary Maulbronn, a Protestant private boarding school in Maulbronn.

KOSPINT

Kolej Sains Pendidikan Islam Negeri Terengganu (KOSPINT) is a boarding secondary school located in Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia.

Ljiljana Smajlović

At the age of nine, along with her mother and sister, young Ljiljana went to Algeria where she attended a French boarding school (internat).

Macdonald Hall

The series is set in a Canadian boarding school for boys called Macdonald Hall (named after John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada), located near the city of Toronto along Highway 48 and seven miles south of the fictitious town of Chutney.

Martin Honert

His early sculptures like Red Upholstered Chair and Table with Jell-O (both 1983) (Catalogue Raisonné nos. 4 & 5) are highly realistic handmade sculptures based on drawings Honert made of his time spent in boarding school in Westphalia.

Maryland School for the Blind

Located in the northeast corner of Baltimore, The Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) is a private, statewide resource center providing outreach, school and residential programs to children and youth from infancy to age 21 who are blind or visually impaired including those with multiple disabilities.

Mazowe Boys High School

Mazowe Boys High School is a Salvation Army (private sponsored) boarding school located 17 kilometres from the Westgate Mall along Old Mazowe road, Harare, Zimbabwe.

Mount Lawley, Western Australia

In addition to MLSHS, the suburb hosts the Anglican girls' school Perth College, a private K-12 campus for both day and boarding students, and two primary schools, being Mount Lawley Primary School and St Paul's Primary School.

Purnia division

The nuns of Loretto convent of Darjeeling had come to Purnia near about 1882 and had opened a day school as well as a boarding school for children in Purnia district.

Rajeev Gandhi Memorial Boarding School

Rajeev Gandhi Memorial Boarding School is a self-funding, boarding senior high school located near Jaidu Mandi in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Sekolah Menengah Sains Banting

It is one of the Sekolah Berasrama Penuh (SBP), or fully residential boarding schools, in Malaysia and is the only fully boarding school in its district (Kuala Langat).

Sekolah Seri Puteri

Sekolah Seri Puteri, also known as SSP, is an all-girls boarding school (Sekolah Berasrama Penuh) located in Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Sekolah Tun Fatimah

Sekolah Tun Fatimah or better known as STF, is a premier all-girl boarding school(Sekolah Berasrama Penuh) located in Johor Bahru, Johor.

The Golden Lily

The book follows Sydney Sage, a young Alchemist that is forced to hide inside a ritzy boarding school in Palm Springs, California so that she can protect Jill Dragomir, a Moroi princess.

The Lion

With her idealistic view of the African savanna crushed, Patricia finally gives in to everyone's demands and leaves with the narrator to attend a boarding school in Nairobi.

The Sandpiper

Now with a third incident a judge (Torin Thatcher) orders her to send the boy to an Episcopal boarding school where Dr. Edward Hewitt (Burton) is headmaster, and his wife Claire (Eva Marie Saint) teaches.

Unser Lehrer Doktor Specht

In the five seasons Specht is added again and to experience the quiet town of Celle, a boarding school on an island (crow Werder), the political situation shortly after the Wende in Potsdam and Berlin, and at the end of the series, the Bavarian countryside, again in a boarding school.

Vavoua Department

Vavoua International School, a Christian missionary boarding school run by WEC International, was situated two kilometres outside the town, adjacent to the small village of Bouitafla, until the recent civil war.

Walter Harper

At the age of 16, Harper started going to Tortella School, an Episcopal boarding school associated with St. Marks Mission in Nenana, Alaska.

Winker Watson

Probably modeled on the Greyfriars stories and on Harry Wharton, Winker is a pupil of the Third Form of Greytowers Boarding School, he is known as the "wangler" of the school, constantly playing tricks and avoiding unpleasant school activities, much to the chagrin of his teacher Mr Clarence Creep (known to the boys as Creepy).

Woodcourt College

Woodcourt College was an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school for girls, located in Wardell Road on the border of Marrickville and Dulwich, inner western suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Woodside School, Ooty

Woodside School is a co-educational boarding school and day school situated on the outskirts of Udhagamandalam Tamil Nadu, India, a hill station which is more commonly known under its abbreviated name of Ooty.


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Alva Belmont

When Murray went to Liverpool, England, to conduct his business, her mother, Phoebe Smith, moved to Paris where Alva attended a private boarding school in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

American Horse

The Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was the model Indian boarding school in the United States from 1879 through 1918.

Angela Brazil

The Governess, or The Little Female Academy by Sarah Fielding, published in 1749, is generally seen as the first boarding school story.

Angeline series

Angeline is an eight-year-old who gets sent to the sixth grade (In Someday Angeline) and is now a student at a boarding school (In Dog's don't tell jokes).

Ashton Youboty

His family settled in Philadelphia, where he attended Girard College, a college prep boarding school for single parent kids and low income families.

Baobab College

Baobab College(formerly Baobab Trust School) is an independent day and boarding school, situated outside Lusaka, Zambia.

Bark Bark Disco

Their debut video for their single "Song for the Lovers" was a tribute to 1970s porn star Brigitte Lahaie, and was taken from Erwin Dietrich's classic film Six Swedish Girls in a Boarding School.

Benoît Haffreingue

Haffreingue was the principal of a private Jesuit boarding school for boys (now known as "Le collège Haffreingue-Chanclaire") in the town which included among it former students the New Zealand architect Francis Petre.

Brendon Chase

At the end of the Easter holidays, Harold falls ill with the measles, so Robin and John are unable to return to boarding school (described as "Banchester" - the name is similar to Winchester College, but it was inspired by Rugby School where the author taught Art).

Chand Bagh

Chand Bagh School, an independent boarding school for boys in Pakistan

Claire Loewenfeld

The Loewenfelds had made arrangements in advance for their belongings to be transported to England and for their children to be evacuated to an English boarding school, St Christopher School, Letchworth, Hertfordshire.

Comilla Cadet College

Like the other five post-Bangladesh Liberation War cadet colleges, CCC was converted from a boarding school.

Coming Up for Air

He was the son of an Indian Civil Servant who was still in India, and he lived a genteel life with his mother and two sisters, though spending much of the year at boarding school at Eastbourne and later at Eton.

Congregation of Marian Fathers

Between 1953 and 1986 the Marian Fathers operated a boarding school, Divine Mercy College, at Fawley Court near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England.

Constantin Héger

She finally returned to the Parsonage at Haworth in January 1844 and later used her time at the boarding school as the inspiration for some of The Professor and Villette.

Cornelia Clapp

Clapp completed the equivalent of an undergraduate program at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (the forerunner of today’s Mount Holyoke College) in 1871 before spending one year as a Latin teacher at a boys' boarding school in Andalusia, Pennsylvania.

Ecole d'Humanité

The Ecole d'Humanité is a progressive international boarding school located in Hasliberg Goldern, Switzerland, in the Berner Oberland.

Ermitage

L'Ermitage, bilingual boarding school in Maisons-Laffitte, France

Estimates of sexual violence

In an extreme case of violence in 1991, 71 teenage girls were raped by their classmates and 19 others were killed at a boarding school in Meru, Kenya.

Fort Totten

Fort Totten State Historic Site, a Dakota frontier-era fort and Native American boarding school

Habib Munzir Al-Musawa

While he was at ma'had Al-Khayrat, he got acquainted with Habib Umar bin Hafiz, the director and founder of Dar al-Mustafa boarding school in Tarim, Hadramaut in Yemen who visited the school as part of his outreach.

Harriet Livermore

Her mother died when she was five and at eight her father placed her in a boarding school in Haverhill, Massachusetts, later sending her to Byfield Female Seminary in Byfield, Massachusetts and Atkinson Academy in New Hampshire.

James Dyson

Dyson was sent to Gresham's School, a boarding school, Holt, Norfolk, from 1956 to 1965, when his father died of cancer.

Jim Bellows

Following a common practice of families with "aspirations", and with financial assistance from an aunt, he was sent at 13 years of age to attend South Kent School — a private college-preparatory boarding school for boys in South Kent, Connecticut, graduating in 1940.

Kenneth Eather

Ken was educated at Abbotsholme College in Wahroonga, New South Wales, am elite boarding school that also attended by future prime ministers Harold Holt and William McMahon.

Kimbolton School

Kimbolton School is a British HMC co-educational independent day and boarding school located in the village of Kimbolton, in rural Huntingdonshire in Cambridgeshire, educating approximately 950 boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 18, with boarding starting at age 11.

Lilavatibai Podar High School

It is a private, ICSE, unaided, independent, day-boarding school, registered with the state of Maharashtra.

Linda Lomahaftewa

She attended a strict mission boarding school in 1961 but hated it and was able to transfer to Phoenix Indian School, then the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1962, the year the school opened.

Linpark High School

Linpark High School is a co-educational public boarding school situated on Claude Forsyth Rd, in Boughton, a northern suburb of Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Marion, Iowa

The town was the home to St. Berchman's Seminary, established in 1905 by the Sisters of Mercy as a boarding school for small boys.

Minna Specht

In 1922, she went to Walkemühle, a progressive boarding school in Melsungen near Kassel, founded by Nelson.

Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy

Nancy Drew goes undercover as a transfer student named "Becca Sawyer" at the Waverly Academy for Girls, an exclusive boarding school in upstate New York.

Nordborg

Within the town is Nordborg Castle, a historic castle whose premises are currently used as a boarding school.

Nuha al-Radi

She was educated at private English-speaking schools in Delhi and Simla, except for a brief spell in 1956 when she attended a boarding school in Alexandria to improve her Arabic, but this was interrupted by the Suez Crisis.

Paul Morrissey

Morrissey attended Ampleforth College, a private Roman Catholic boarding school and Fordham University, both Roman Catholic schools, and later served in the United States Army.

Paulusheim

Paulusheim is rooted in a boarding school of the small Italian community of Masio near Alessandria.

Ron Ben-Yishai

He graduated from the military boarding school near the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1961.

Saint Gertrude High School

In 1922, Saint Edith Academy, a boarding school for girls at Bristow, Virginia was closed, and the high school department was transferred to Saint Gertrude in Richmond.

Salem, Baden-Württemberg

Currently the grounds are home to the middle school campus of the boarding school Schule Schloss Salem, founded in 1920 by Kurt Hahn and Prince Max of Baden.

Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra

Sekolah Menengah Sains Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra or SMSTMFP is a premier government-funded secondary boarding school (Sekolah Berasrama Penuh) in Pengkalan Chepa, Kota Bharu in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia.

Shred 2

Shred 2: Revenge of the Boarding School Dropouts is a snowboarding film and a sequel to Shred that stars Tom Green and was filmed at Big White Ski Resort in British Columbia, Canada.

St. Anne's Diocesan College

St Anne's Diocesan College is a private girls' boarding school situated in the small town of Hilton in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa.

Stiftung Louisenlund

Advised by Kurt Hahn, in 1949 Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg decided to build a boarding school on the grounds and established the Louisenlund Foundation.

Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart

At the age of 9, she was enrolled in the boarding school of the Benedictine nuns of the Monastery of St. Apollonia in Florence.

Thomas C. Hindman

Meanwhile, the younger Hindman attended local schools before leaving for the Lawrenceville Classical Institute in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, the third oldest boarding school in the country.

Thomas Lynch Raymond

Thomas L. Raymond, Jr. began his schooling at the East Orange Public School System and then went to boarding school at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario.

Tone Pavček

He attended the first grade of elementary school in Mirna Peč, but was soon sent to a boarding school in Ljubljana.

Vanessa Branch

After graduating from Mercersburg Academy, a boarding school in south-central Pennsylvania, she graduated from Middlebury College in 1994 and was Miss Vermont also that year.

Zou Lunlun

She started playing the guzheng at age 2, and undertook serious music studies at age 7 when she entered a music boarding school, which was part of the Shenyang Conservatory of Music.