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Children have been educated on the present site since the fifteenth century and a sense of history, tradition and continuity pervades the modern school. The Prebendal School is the oldest school in Sussex and probably dates back to the foundation of Chichester Cathedral in the eleventh century when it would have been a 'song school' responsible for teaching and housing the choristers. Later it admitted other boys from the city and neighbouring areas and became a grammar school. It was refounded in 1497 by Bishop Edward Story who attached it to the Prebend of Highleigh in Chichester Cathedral and thus gave it its present name.

The school is a co-educational, day and boarding preparatory school educating children between the ages of 3 and 13 years. Girls were introduced into the school in 1972 and a Pre-Prep in 1996 Link (Archive Link )