The Royal Hospital School (also known as "RHS" and historically nicknamed "The Cradle of the Navy") is a British co-educational fee-charging international boarding and day school with naval traditions. The school admits pupils aged 11 to 18 (years 7 to 13) through Common Entrance or its own examination. The school is regulated by an act of Parliament, the Greenwich Hospital Act 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 89).
The school is located in the village of Holbrook, near Ipswich, Suffolk, England. The school's campus is in the Queen Anne style and set on 200 acres (0.81Â km) of countryside. It overlooks the River Stour, Suffolk on the Shotley Peninsula in an area known as Constable Country.