The present site in Bardwell Road in central North Oxford is just to the west of the River Cherwell. The school was known as Oxford Preparatory School and also Lynam's, but gradually its current name was adopted.
and the move was completed within a year. £4,000 was quickly raised through subscriptions from local parents for the erection of new school buildings. Lynam took out a lease on land at the current site at Bardwell Road. Charles Cotterill Lynam (known as the "Skipper") took over as headmaster in 1886. The school expanded and moved within two years to 17 Crick Road, which became known as "School House". Teaching started in September 1877 at rooms in Balliol Hall, located in St Giles', central Oxford, under A. The 'Dragon' name, which has been attributed to an off-hand quip by a teacher at rival school Summer Fields, gained popularity, and in time, the school was officially renamed to the Dragon School. Among the most active of the dons was a Mr George, so the first pupils decided to call themselves " Dragons" after Saint George and the Dragon. Indeed, many early teachers were or had been 'dons' themselves. The school's original remit was to provide a high standard of academic grounding and pastoral care to the children of professors of the University of Oxford. The school was started by a committee of Oxford dons. The Dragon School was founded in 1877, and was originally named the Preparatory School and sometimes called Lynam's Preparatory School. School House at the Dragon School, on Bardwell Road in North Oxford. As of September 2001, the school had 840 pupils, of both sexes. The school accepts pupils from the age of 8 ("E Block") through to 13 ("A Block"), although an associated "pre-prep", Lynams, accepts children from age 4 to the age of 8. Although established primarily as a boys' school, there have always been girls as day pupils at the school, and girls were first admitted as boarders in 1994. It is primarily known as a boarding school, although it also takes day pupils. The Dragon School is a British coeducational, preparatory school in the city of Oxford, founded in 1877 as the Oxford Preparatory School, or OPS.
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