Box Hill School is an independent coeducational boarding and day school situated in the village of Mickleham near Dorking, Surrey, England. The school has approximately 425 pupils aged 11–18. 70 percent of students are day students whilst the remaining 30 percent are either weekly boarders or full boarders. Full boarding fees start at £31,950 per year and range to £40,575 per year. The school is a founding member of the Round Square Conference of Schools (an association which the school's founding headmaster Roy McComish played a vital role in the establishment and early administration of) as well as being a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The school has offered the International Baccalaureate since September 2008 and re-introduced A levels in 2013, meaning both are now available at Sixth Form. It is situated 40 minutes from central London on the direct Dorking and Leatherhead line. The school's patron is Constantine II of Greece. Until his death in 2018, Sir James Weatherall (first commanding officer of the Royal Navy's flagship the Ark Royal) served as warden of the school. History History of Dalewood House before the school Dalewood House, the main school building, was constructed in 1883 by a local developer called Charles J Fox. The House was designed by the Victorian architect John Norton (who also designed a number of other buildings of distinction within the UK and Europe including the National Trust house Tyntesfield in Somerset). Although the house was built during the Victorian era, its design is both mock Tudor and Gothic Revival. The interior is full of hand-painted tiles, beautifully crafted stained-glass windows, and fine wood paneling, with magnificent fireplaces throughout. In 1890 the house was sold to David Evans (one of the nineteenth century’s pre-eminent silk printers and chairman of 'David Evans & Co'), on whose death it passed to his daughter Lucie Fosberie until 1939. Before Box Hill School took occupation of the house it was in almost continuous private ownership by the Evans family but was converted into use as a school building after the Second World War. The house was requisitioned by the Army as the headquarters of the Pay Corps during the Second World War. In 1951 the house was taken over and run as a school by two Australian sisters. Foundation of the school Box Hill School was founded in 1959 by Roy McComish a house master and art master