| Bootham School | |
| Motto: | Membra sumus corporis magni (We are members of a greater body) |
| Religious Affiliation: | Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) |
| Head Label: | Headmaster |
| Head: | Deneal Smith[1] |
| R Head Label: | Deputy Head |
| R Head: | James Ratcliffe |
| Founder: | Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) |
| Address: | Bootham |
| Country: | England |
| Postcode: | YO30 7BU |
| Urn: | 121722 |
| Enrolment: | 605 |
| Lower Age: | 3 |
| Upper Age: | 19 |
| Houses: | Firbank Pendle Brigflatts Swarthmore |
| Publication: | Bootham Magazine |
| Free Label 1: | Boarding Houses |
| Free 1: | Rowntree Fox Evelyn |
| Free Label 2: | Former Pupils |
| Free 2: | Bootham Old Scholars Association |
Bootham School is a private Quaker boarding school, on Bootham in the city of York in England. It accepts boys and girls ages 3–19 and had an enrolment of 605 pupils in 2016.[2] It is one of seven Quaker schools in England.
The school was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opened on 6 January 1823 in Lawrence Street, York. Its first headmaster was William Simpson (1823–1828). He was followed by John Ford (1828–). The school is now on Bootham, near York Minster. It is based in 51 Bootham, a building originally built in 1804 for Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone, but has expanded into several neighbouring buildings.
The school's motto Membra Sumus Corporis Magni means "We are members of a greater body", quoting Seneca the Younger (Epistle 95, 52).
Bootham was ranked at 43rd in the 2011 Independent Schools A-Levels League Tables.[3]
Notable former pupils include the 19th-century parliamentary leader John Bright, the mathematician Lewis Fry Richardson ("father of fractals"), the physicist and electrical engineer Silvanus P. Thompson, the historian A. J. P. Taylor, the actor-manager Brian Rix, the applied linguist Stephen Pit Corder, the child psychiatrist Sir Michael Rutter, the social reformer Seebohm Rowntree, the 1959 Nobel Peace Prize winner Philip Noel-Baker, Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood, singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich, the chief executive of Marks & Spencer Stuart Rose[4] and Jon Ingle, better known as drag artist Lady Bunny.[5]