What is Bedales School?
'''Bedales School''' is a [[Co-education|co-educational]] [[private school]]. It is a boarding and day school in the village of Steep, near the market town of [[Petersfield, Hampshire|Petersfield]] in [[Hampshire]], England. It was founded in 1893 by Amy Badley and John Haden Badley as an alternative to usual Victorian schools. It has been co-educational since 1898. Bedales takes young people from 13 to 18, so it is a secondary school. The enrolment is 761 at present. The school has never had a [[chapel]]: its relatively [[Secularism|secular]] teaching made it attractive to non-conformists, [[Agnosticism|agnostics]], [[Quakers]], [[Unitarianism|Unitarians]] and liberal [[Jew|Jews]], who were among its early intake. {{-}} [[Category:Schools in England]]