Editing Dorking (section)

===Secondary schools===
[[The Ashcombe School]] is a coeducational secondary school, north of the town centre. It traces its origins to the Dorking High School for Boys, founded in 1884, and the St Martin's High School for Girls, opened in 1903.<ref name=Jackson_1991_pp83-85/> In 1931, the two schools were merged to become the Dorking County School and moved to a new site in Ashcombe Road. In 1959 the Mowbray County Secondary Modern for girls was opened on an adjacent site. The two schools were combined to create the Ashcombe School in 1975.<ref name=Jackson_1991_p94/>

[[The Priory School, Dorking|The Priory School]] opened as the County Secondary Modern Mixed School in September 1949. It was initially based at the Dene Street Institute, but moved to its present location in West Bank within a few years. In 1959, the girls were transferred to the Mowbray School in the Ashcombe Road, and Sondes Place continued as a boys-only school.<ref>{{harvnb|Wharmby|2013|p=121}}</ref> In 1976 it became a mixed comprehensive school and was renamed the Priory School in 1996.<ref>{{harvnb|Wharmby|2013|pp=160–161}}</ref>