Rugby School is a famous English public school founded in 1567 at Rugby, England. England’s “public” schools are not free schools. They are privately supported institutions for secondary education. Rugby’s playground was one of the founding places of Rugby football. The school became one of the leading public schools in England under Thomas Arnold, who served as headmaster from 1828 to 1842. Arnold is the popular headmaster who appears in the novel Tom Brown’s School Days, by Thomas Hughes. Rugby’s average enrollment is more than 750.
