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St Christopher's School was established in Sackville Road in Hove in 1927, moving to New Church Road and its current site in 1944. By the 1950s, the School began to expand its numbers from 70 to 120, at which time its reputation for academic and sporting excellence became established. In 1961, St Christopher's pupils won every one of the ten scholarships awarded by Brighton College.
 Maurice Saunders (Old Sir) joined the staff of the School in 1945 and succeeded Mr Gilbert Beall as Headmaster in 1956. Fresh from Oxford, Roger Saunders (Young Sir), who had been a boy at the School in the 1950s, joined his father at St Christopher's in 1973, succeeding him as Headmaster in 1978. By the mid-1980s, the excellence of the school's academic reputation was confirmed, with boys winning the top scholarships at Brighton College, Lancing College, Hurstpierpoint College and Christ's Hospital. The School became co-educational in 1999.
After thirty years, Roger Saunders retired as Headmaster in 2003 and transferred ownership of St Christopher's to his old public school, Brighton College. A Board of Governors was established and St Christopher's became a member of the Brighton College family of schools.
Chris Wheeler became Headmaster in September 2010 having previously been a Housemaster at Brighton College, Deputy Head at Peponi School in Kenya and Head of English at St John’s School in Leatherhead. He is married to Georgina and has two children, Tilly and Walter. Mr Wheeler is committed to keeping St Christopher’s at the cutting edge of educational development whilst preserving the importance of the school’s traditions, so embodied in its famous red blazer and motto ‘altiora peto’, striving, always, to seek higher things.
Today, as part of the Brighton College family of schools, St Christopher's School continues to enjoy its long-held reputation for academic excellence and first-rate sport and is one of Hove's leading preparatory schools. It offers all its pupils a dynamic learning environment in which children can experience a rich diet of the creative and performing arts and a wide range of extra-curricular activities. Our motto 'Altiora Peto' (we strive for higher things) still very much defines the spirit of a St Christopher's education in the 21st Century.
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