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A school song, alma mater, school hymn or school anthem is the patronal song of a school. In England, this tradition is particularly strong in public school
Independent school (UK)
An independent school is a school that is not financed through the taxation system by local or national government and is instead funded by private sources, predominantly in the form of tuition charges, gifts and long-term charitable endowments, and so is not subject to the conditions imposed by...

s and grammar schools.

Australia

  • Melbourne High School
    Melbourne High School
    Melbourne High School is a selective entry state school for boys in years 9 to 12 located in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra. Being a selective school, it is known mainly for its strong academic reputation...

     - Honour the Work
  • The University High School
    University High School, Melbourne
    The University High School is a public, co-educational high school, located in the Melbourne suburb of Parkville.-History:...

     - Strenue ac Fideliter

Canada

  • McGill University
    McGill University
    Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

     - "Hail, Alma Mater" (formal) and "James McGill"
  • Selwyn House School
    Selwyn House School
    Selwyn House School is a private independent boys' school located in Westmount, Quebec. Boys can attend from Kindergarten through to Grade 11. The school was founded in 1908 by Englishman Captain Algernon Lucas...

     - O God of All Being
  • Upper Canada College
    Upper Canada College
    Upper Canada College , located in midtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is an independent elementary and secondary school for boys between Senior Kindergarten and Grade Twelve, operating under the International Baccalaureate program. The secondary school segment is divided into ten houses; eight are...

     - Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven

England

  • Addey and Stanhope
    Addey and Stanhope School
    Addey and Stanhope School is a voluntary-aided, co-educational secondary school, located in Lewisham, London, UK. A former grammar school, with origins dating to 1606, Addey and Stanhope became a specialist science and technology school in 2006. The school is also part of the Crossways Federation,...

     - School Song
  • Bedford School
    Bedford School
    Bedford School is not to be confused with Bedford Modern School or Bedford High School or Old Bedford School in Bedford, TexasBedford School is an HMC independent school for boys located in the town of Bedford, England, United Kingdom...

     - Domus Pater
  • Douai School
    Douai School
    Douai School was the public school that was run by the Douai Abbey Benedictine community at Woolhampton, England, until it closed in 1999.- History :...

     - Ad Multos Annos
  • Dover Grammar School for Boys
    Dover Grammar School for Boys
    Dover Grammar School for Boys is a selective secondary school located in Dover, United Kingdom. The school is situated next to Astor College for the Arts, which is a non-selective school. It has a strong sporting rivalry with Astor and Sir Roger Manwood's School, a selective Grammar school in...

     - Thou Whose Almighty Word
  • Downside School
    Downside School
    Downside School is a co-educational Catholic independent school for children aged 11 to 18, located in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, between Norton Radstock and Shepton Mallet in Somerset, south west England. It is attached to Downside Abbey...

     - Patriae domus decorem
  • Dulwich College
    Dulwich College
    Dulwich College is an independent school for boys in Dulwich, southeast London, England. The college was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan actor, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the foundation of "God's Gift". It currently has about 1,600 boys,...

     - Pueri Alleynienses
  • Durham School
    Durham School
    Durham School, headmaster Martin George , is an independent British day and boarding school for boys and girls in Durham....

     - Floreat Dunelmia
  • Eton College
    Eton College
    Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

     - Carmen Etoniense
  • Loughborough Grammar School
    Loughborough Grammar School
    Loughborough Grammar School founded in 1495 by Thomas Burton, is an independent school for boys in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It is a day school for over 1100 pupils and a boarding school for nearly 100. It is one of three schools known as the Loughborough Endowed Schools, along with...

     - Our Father by Whose Servant (G.W. Briggs)
  • The London Oratory School - Quam Bonum est in hac Fraternitate
  • Normanhurst School
    Normanhurst School
    Normanhurst School is a private independent school in North Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The school was founded in 1923....

     - The Child is the Father of the Man
  • Oundle School
    Oundle School
    Oundle School is a co-educational British public school located in the ancient market town of Oundle in Northamptonshire. The school has been maintained by the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the City of London since its foundation in 1556. Oundle has eight boys' houses, five girls' houses, a day...

     - Carmen Undeliense
  • Stamford School
    Stamford School
    Stamford School is an English independent school situated in the market town of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It has been a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference since 1920.-History:...

     - Carmen Stamfordiense and In Father Time's Remoter Days
  • William Hulme's Grammar School
    William Hulme's Grammar School
    William Hulme's Grammar School is an Academy in Whalley Range, Manchester, England.-History:WHGS was founded on 26 January 1887 as a grammar school. It ceased to be a direct grant school when the Labour government abolished the scheme, and was therefore forced to become private...

     - The Hulme Song and Jerusalem

India

The Gurukul,Jalandhar.(hb-Rahul)
  • Loyola School, Thiruvananthapuram - Cheer Loyola's sons
  • St. Paul's School, Darjeeling - The Alma mater
  • St. Anns High School, Secunderabad - Scenes Of Our Childhood

New Zealand

  • Auckland Grammar School
    Auckland Grammar School
    Auckland Grammar School is a state secondary school for years 9 to 13 boys in Auckland, New Zealand. It had a roll of 2,483 in 2008, including a number of boarders who live in nearby Tibbs' House, making it one of the largest schools in New Zealand...

     - Per Angusta Ad Augusta
  • Dilworth School
    Dilworth School
    Dilworth School is an independent full boarding school for boys in Auckland, New Zealand. All the boys attending are on full scholarships covering all education and boarding costs, as the school is owned and operated by a charitable trust....

     - St Patrick's Breastplate
  • Palmerston North Boys' High School
    Palmerston North Boys' High School
    Palmerston North Boys' High School is a state secondary school for boys located in Palmerston North, New Zealand.-Location:Palmerston North Boys' High School is located on Featherston Street, between the intersections of Rangitikei Street and North Street....

     - On! Palmerston North Boys High and Nihil Boni Sine Labore

Scotland

  • Royal High School
    Royal High School (Edinburgh)
    The Royal High School of Edinburgh is a co-educational state school administered by the City of Edinburgh Council. The school was founded in 1128 and is one of the oldest schools in Scotland, and has, throughout its history, been high achieving, consistently attaining well above average exam results...

     - Vivas Schola Regia
    Vivas Schola Regia
    Vivas Schola Regia, officially Scholae Regiae Edinensis Carmen, is the song of the Royal High School of Edinburgh. The Latin lyrics were written by the Rector, Dr. John Marshall, in 1895, and set to music by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, a former pupil of the school...

  • High School of Dundee
    High School of Dundee
    The High School of Dundee is an independent, co-educational, day school in the city of Dundee, Scotland which provides both primary and secondary education to just over one thousand pupils...

     - Floreat Schola Taodunensis

Sri Lanka

  • Royal College Colombo
    Royal College Colombo
    The Royal College of Colombo was founded in January 1835 in Colombo. It is considered to be the leading Public School in Sri Lanka...

     - School of Our Fathers
    School of Our Fathers
    The School of Our Fathers is the school song of Royal College Colombo. It is sung at the start of every school day except for Monday,when the National Anthem is sung, and on other important occasions. The words of the song were written by Major H.L.Reed, a Principal of the school in the third term...

  • Girls' High School - Forty Years On
  • Trinity College Kandy- Where River Lake and Mountain Meet
  • D.S. Senanayake College, Colombo- Sip Satha Sis Wetha
  • Ananda College
    Ananda College
    Ananda College , Colombo which is considered as the leading National school in Sri Lanka, was established on November 1, 1886, by the Buddhist Theosophical Society led by Colonel Henry Steel Olcott...

    - Dina dina kithu gosa bowee

USA

  • St. Albans School
    St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)
    St. Albans School is an independent college preparatory school for boys in grades 4–12, located in Washington, D.C. The school is named after Saint Alban, traditionally regarded as the first British martyr. Within the St...

     - Men of the Future, Stand
  • TMI — The Episcopal School of Texas - For the Splendor of Creation
  • University of North Dakota
    University of North Dakota
    The University of North Dakota is a public university in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state and enrolls over 14,000 students. ...

     - UND Alma Mater
    UND Alma Mater
    Alma Mater is a school song of the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The Carillon Americana bells at the top of Twamley Hall on campus play the tune of Alma Mater each day at noon.-Lyrics:...

  • Dillard University
    Dillard University
    Dillard University is a private, historically black liberal arts college in New Orleans, Louisiana. Founded in 1930 incorporating earlier institutions that went back to 1869, it is affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church....

     - Fair Dillard
  • Pace University
    Pace University
    Pace University is an American private, co-educational, and comprehensive multi-campus university in the New York metropolitan area with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York.-Programs:...

     - Pace, O, Pace
  • University of Florida
    University of Florida
    The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

     - "We Are the Boys from Old Florida"
  • University of Texas at Austin
    University of Texas at Austin
    The University of Texas at Austin is a state research university located in Austin, Texas, USA, and is the flagship institution of the The University of Texas System. Founded in 1883, its campus is located approximately from the Texas State Capitol in Austin...

     - "The Eyes of Texas
    The Eyes of Texas
    "The Eyes of Texas" is the alma mater of the University of Texas at Austin. It is set to the tune of "I've Been Working on the Railroad." Students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University sing the song at Longhorn sports games and other events....

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