Once you've visited the largest school in the world, be sure to round out the record book and visit The King's School: the oldest
continuously operating school, technically founded in 597 AD.
Roxbury Latin — the school still requires three years of Latin — enjoys the distinction of being the oldest
continuously operating school in America (though that statement always comes with a footnote: Boston Latin was founded ten years earlier, in 1635, but closed during the Revolutionary War: «War's begun, school's done,» announced Headmaster John Lovell).