Hogwarts is considered to be one of the finest magical
institutions in the wizarding world. Hogwarts was founded around 990
A.D. by two wizards and two witches: Godric Gryffindor, Helga
Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. They each
represented an aspect of personality that they wanted to bring out in new
students.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is an
English wizarding boarding school teaching
the magical arts, located in remote Scotland inside Hogwarts
Castle. The castle is in the mountains near a loch. The precise location of the
school can never be uncovered because it has been rendered Unplottable.
Similarly, most wizarding schools locations are protected in order to prevent
their ways of teaching being revealed, as well as protect the students with
their schools themselves from any harm from other wizards and the muggle world. 

Children attended have magical abilities may be enrolled at birth, and
acceptance is confirmed by owl post at age eleven.

The school's motto is Draco Dormiens Nunquam
Titillandus and is in Latin, which translates to "Never tickle a
sleeping dragon".