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Harrow School details

Address:

Harrow School
5 High Street, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 3HP

Telephone:

020 88728000

Fax:

020 8872 8012

Email:

webadmissions@ harrowschool.org.uk

Website:

www.harrowschool.org.uk/html/

Authority:

Harrow

Gender of entry:

Boys

Age range:

13-19

Number of students:

801

Affiliation:

HMC

Gender of sixth form:

Boys

Last inspection:

November 2000. Read the full inspection report.

General information

Headteacher: Barnaby Lenon, appointed in September 1999.

Staff: 90 (men 78, women 15).

Background: Harrow aims to produce young men who will go on to be leaders in their chosen professions and promotes the development of intellectual curiosity and personal fulfilment. Pupils have dedicated teaching staff, top-notch facilities, good discipline and individual care in order to meet these great expectations. Harrow is London's sole boarding-only school. Consistently excellent exam results are achieved thanks to a broad education in which most departments run their own extracurricular societies to stimulate interest. Visiting speakers and fieldwork supplement lessons. A new 20-classroom block opened this year. All pupils have an academic tutor who meets them weekly to assess their progress. The sciences are popular and many boys go on to read science at university. Languages include Russian, Portuguese, Japanese and Arabic. Regular foreign trips are arranged to France, Germany, China and Spain. A strong music department offers individual tuition in orchestral instruments, the bagpipes, piano, organ, guitar and singing. A new recording studio and rehearsal room gives budding rock stars room to do their thing. All boys are encouraged to take part in some aspect of play production about 14 are staged each year and Harrow has a 390-seat theatre. Harrow Rifle Corps helps ingrain service and leadership in pupils and in the past year, Harrovians have won more army scholarships than pupils of any other school. Sports facilities include a nine-hole golf course, and nine boys have recently represented their country in sports.

Alumni: Lord Byron, poet; Cecil Beaton, photographer; James Blunt, singer; five prime ministers.

Approach to discipline: Strict discipline.

Uniform: Pupils are expected to wear school uniform.

Higher education: 98% (17 Oxford 8 Cambridge).

Special needs: Learning support for dyslexia.

Inspection: November 2000: This is a very good school in which standards of attainment in relation to pupils' capabilities are good or very good across all subjects and which obtains good public examination results. The school is very well led by an experienced and supportive governing body who, together with the headmaster and his senior management team, provide the school with positive leadership. The school has good levels of pastoral care and relationships among pupils and between them and the staff are of a high order.

Feeder schools: Cothill House Prep (10 pupils); Summer Fields (8 pupils); Caldicott (15 pupils); Wellesley House (7 pupils); Edge Grove (14 pupils).

Boys' age range: 13 to 18.

Over-subscribed: 4:1.

Percentage admitted according to academic ability: 100.

Senior boys: 800.

Senior boys 13-18: Y.

Average class size (seniors; 11-16): 14.

Average class size (sixth form): 9.

Principle admission ages: 13yrs, 16yrs.

Gifted pupils: 120.

Bursary pupils: 25.

Bursaries: Art, Music, Choral, Sport, Design.

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