Although there are no official school records, many scholars believe that Shakespeare would have gone to school at Stratford's "King's New School." They believe he would have attended this all boys school because of his father's position on the town council granted him a place there.

King's New School was a grammar school for the area. From the  records it was found that some of the masters at this school were Oxford graduates. At a grammar school during this time, it was common for the students to receive a humanist education, specifically focusing on Latin. The learning style was mainly rote learning(repetition until memorized). Along with Latin, the boys would have learned rhetoric, Greek stories, and possibly drama (performing Latin plays).

The next step in education would have been attending a university. Typically, it was only the wealthy and higher positioned families that would go to university. Although there are some examples like Christopher Marlowe, a playwright was not expected to attend a university. This would have been the case for Shakespeare, with his education ending at around the age of fifteen.