St. Bees School was a co-educational
independent school located in the
West Cumbrian village of
St Bees. Founded in 1583 by the then
Archbishop of Canterbury Edmund Grindal as a boys' "free grammar school", it was later a member of the
Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and was coeducational from 1978. Before closure in 2015 the school accommodated both day pupils and boarders, who lived in five boarding houses located on the school grounds and in the village, although each day pupil was also a member of a house. The last headmaster was James Davies, from September 2012 to July 2015.