Oxfordshire
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. The school is co-educational, day and boarding, offering both weekly and flexi-boarding, and has 350 pupils aged 3 to 13 years.
History
St Hugh's was established at Morland House,
Chislehurst
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, Kent, in 1906, before moving to Lamas House (which became a hospital during the First World War) and then Widmore Court in nearby
Bickley
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, then in Kent. During the Second World War the school was evacuated to
Malvern Wells
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in Worcestershire.
During the school's absence from Kent, its buildings became the temporary wartime offices of
Hodder & Stoughton
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Early history
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. However, these were destroyed by a V-1 "Doodlebug" in the early morning of 27 June 1944. The school did not, therefore, return to Kent after the war but relocated to
Carswell Manor
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then in
Berkshire
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, a Jacobean country house with grounds.
The school bears the name of
Hugh of Avalon
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and is administered as a charitable educational trust by a board of governors. For many years St Hugh's was solely a boys' full boarding school but since 1977 it has also taught girls.
In 2011, St Hugh's was a co-educational boarding school for children between the ages of three and thirteen. It had some children who were being taught to overcome
dyslexia
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