St Benedict's School
File:St Benedicts School Crest.png
Location
Ealing , London , W5 2ES England
Information
Type	Independent (Public School)
Motto	a minimus incipe "from the smallest beginnings"
Religious affiliation(s)	Roman Catholic
Established	1902
Founder	Friar Sebastian Cave
Headmasters	Christopher Cleugh (Senior School) Robert Simmons (Junior School)
Gender	Junior school co-ed (Senior school - 6th form co-ed. Moving to full Co-education 2008)
Age	3 (nursery)/4 (Junior School) to 18
Enrollment	~610 (Senior School) ~265 (Junior School)
Houses	4(Barlow,Gervase,Pickering,Roberts)
Colour(s)	Green, yellow
Former pupils	Old Priorians
Website	http://www.stbenedicts.org.uk

St Benedict's School, is an independent Roman Catholic day school based in Ealing, West London. The school is part of Ealing Abbey and is governed by the Abbot and monks of Ealing. It is the only Benedictine day school in England that does not take boarding pupils.

The school was founded as Ealing Priory School in 1902 by Fr Sebastian Cave. The junior school was 'spun off' as a separate entity with its own headmaster in 1946, and in 1948 the school's name was changed to St Benedict's. The senior school's first lay headmaster, Dr A.J. Dachs, was appointed in 1987, while the junior school's first lay headmaster, Robert Simmons - himself a former pupil of the school - was appointed in 2000.

Although St Benedict's was originally founded as a boys school, girls have been admitted to the sixth form of the senior school since the 1970s and to the nursery since it was founded in 2002. In June 2006, the Monastic Chapter voted to extend co-education across the whole school and as from the Michaelmas term 2007, the junior school is fully co-educational. The senior school will also become co-educational in Michaelmas 2008.

Alumni of the school are known as Old Priorians, and include:

• Christopher Caudwell
• Iain Softley
• Andy Serkis
• Denis MacShane
• Douglas Murray
• Denis O'Regan
• David Bermingham
• Declan Donnellan
• Peter Ackroyd
• Labi Siffre
• Julian Clary

Chris Patten (now Lord Patten of Barnes), also attended the school. He now serves as an Advisory Governor to the school and is Chancellor of the universities of Newcastle and Oxford.

The junior school is proud of its record in rugby union^[1], where it won the Under 15 Daily Mail Cup in 2005, in cricket and in music.^{[citation needed]}

• St. Benedict's School website
• BBC League Tables