Strode’s Sixth Form College is a great place to study and we are highly experienced in guiding young people onto the next step of their lives – whether it is university, a gap year or straight into employment. We are experts in providing high quality sixth form education. We have been a Sixth Form College since 1975. During this time, many thousands of our students have achieved notable success in a wide variety of fields - academic, commercial, artistic, dramatic, sporting and in the media with some finding national recognition.
Henry Strode, our founder (1645-1704), was born during the English Civil War and lived in London through the Plague and the Great Fire, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and finally war (the War of Spanish Succession). He was the son of a master cooper and joined the family firm in 1680 going on to make a substantial fortune in business in London. He joined the Court of The Worshipful Company of Coopers and became Master in 1703. That same year he made the Will which came into effect when he died the following year on 6 May 1704. In 1704, he bequeathed to the Company £6,000 to establish a ‘good strong substantial schoolhouse… for the learning and edifying of the poor children of the Parish of Egham’.
