Duke of York's Royal Military School

The Duke of York's Royal Military School
Guston
,
Kent
,
CT15 5EQ

England
Information
TypeSelective academy
state boarding school
Mottoes"Looking Forward with Confidence, Looking Back with Pride"
Former: "Sons of the Brave"
Religious affiliationProtestant
Established1803 (1803)
Department for Education URN136177 Tables
OfstedReports
PresidentPrince Edward Duke of Kent
HeadmanAlex Foreman
GenderCo-Ed
Age11 to 18
Enrolment500
Houses11
ColoursNavy, maroon and white      
Former pupilsDukies[1]
Websitehttp://www.doyrms.com

The Duke of York's Royal Military School, in Guston, Kent, commonly known as the Duke of York's, is a co-educational academy with military tradition for students aged 11 to 18.

In 2010, the school became an academy under the Ministry of Defence and accepts applications from any student wishing to enroll, in a change from the school's tradition of only accepting boys whose fathers had served or were currently serving in the British Army, and who had not joined it as officers. (Girls had been readmitted from1994.)

This break with tradition transformed the school into a state boarding school and offered it a membership in the State Boarding Forum and Boarding Schools Association. The latter development yet once again changed the school's oversight and transferred it from the Ministry of Defence to the Department for Education.

The curriculum employed by The Duke of York's includes some military traditions, such as the use of uniforms and ceremonial parades, however the School does employ a monitorial style of education modelled on the English public school system.