Ryde School with Upper Chine

Ryde School was founded by William and Constance McIsaac as Ryde Grammar School on 25 April 1921. The school was opened by the mayor of Ryde with 46 day boys, who were put into three houses, Britons, Celts and Romans. William McIsaac is quoted as saying "boys would endeavour to be useful to God to whom they owed their existence and that they would use God's gifts for others first and themselves last." Within a year, numbers increased to 78 and in 1923, the numbers further increased to 103 with the school divided into prep, junior and senior for ages 5 to 8, 8 to 11 and 11+ respectively. In September 1972, the school's headmaster, Keith Symons, admitted the first girls into the sixth form.…