Monmouth School

Monmouth School was a public school (independent boarding and day school) for boys in Monmouth, Wales.

Founded in 1614 with an endowment from William Jones, a successful cloth merchant and trader in Elizabethan times, Monmouth School was run as a trust, the William Jones's Schools Foundation, by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, one of the Great Twelve City Livery Companies, and had close links with its sister school, Haberdashers' Monmouth School for Girls. In 2018, the Haberdashers' Company renamed its group of schools in the town, the Monmouth Schools, and made corresponding changes to the names of the boys' and girls' schools. Further changes were initiated in June 2022, when the Haberdashers opened a consultation on merging the school with the girls' school in the town to create a fully co-educational establishment. In October 2024 the amalgamated schools were relaunched as Haberdashers' Monmouth School.

The school is situated on the eastern edge of the border town of Monmouth, adjacent to the River Wye. Nothing of its original buildings from the 17th century remains as the school was completely rebuilt in the mid to late-19th century. Later developments have included the Science Block (1981–84) and the William Jones Building of the early 21st century (2014). In 2014, the quatercentenary of the school's foundation was celebrated with a service at St Paul's Cathedral.

Established originally as a grammar school, by the early 1870s Monmouth was a member of the newly-formed Headmasters' Conference and had acquired the status of a public school. Between 1946 and 1976 it joined the direct-grant scheme, returning to full independence from 1976. A member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, the school's roll numbered approximately 650 pupils. The fees as at 2024, the last year of operation as a single-sex school, were £25,245 for day pupils, and £48,702 for boarders. The William Jones's Schools Foundation, which funds the Monmouth Schools on behalf of the Haberdashers’ Company, recorded an income of £20.5M against an expenditure of £24.0M in its accounts for 2020.