Culford School is a coeducational HMC

HMC

- Education :* Harris Manchester College, at Oxford University* Harvard Model Congress, the oldest and largest congressional simulation conference in the world...

 and IAPS public school

Public School (UK)

A public school, in common British usage, is a school that is neither administered nor financed by the state or from taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of endowments, tuition fees and charitable contributions, usually existing as a non profit-making charitable trust...

 (including Preparatory

Preparatory school (UK)

In English language usage in the former British Empire, the present-day Commonwealth, a preparatory school is an independent school preparing children up to the age of eleven or thirteen for entry into fee-paying, secondary independent schools, some of which are known as public schools...

 and Pre-Preparatory Schools) for pupils age 3–18. Founded in 1881, it is situated in Culford

Culford

Culford is a small village about north of Bury St Edmunds in the English county of Suffolk. The villageis based around a straight road called "The Street" and there are also some smaller residential areas in Culford, like Benyon gardens, a complex of small lanes...

, four miles north of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk

Suffolk

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, England

England

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.
The school was founded as the East Anglia

East Anglia

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n School for Boys, incorporating an institution founded in 1873 by Congregationalist

Congregational church

Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs....

 minister, Dr John H. L. Christien. It was one of a group of Methodist

Methodist Church of Great Britain

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 schools established in response to the growth of the middle class, the launching of the Woodard Schools

Woodard Schools

Woodard Schools is a group of Anglican schools affiliated to the Woodard Corporation which has its origin in the work of Nathaniel Woodard, an Anglo-Catholic clergyman....

 and the 1867 Taunton Commission, which fuelled an expansion of secondary education in general and of non-conformist boarding schools in particular.