Harrow High School
| Established | 1911 |
|---|---|
| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Paul Gamble |
| Specialism | Sports |
| Location | Gayton Road Harrow Middlesex HA1 2JG England |
| Local authority | Harrow |
| DfE URN | 102242 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 701 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 12–16 |
| Website | Harrow High School |
Coordinates: 51°34′50″N 0°19′39″W / 51.58053°N 0.32752°W
Harrow High School is a secondary academy school in the London Borough of Harrow in the north-west of London. The headteacher is Paul Gamble. The school is a specialist Sports College. It is not to be confused with the independent school Harrow School, situated nearby at Harrow on the Hill.
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[edit] History
The site was formerly the home of Harrow County School for Boys. In 1975, when the London Borough of Harrow adopted a comprehensive system of education, the school became known as Gayton High School, an all boys school.
[edit] Comprehensive
Gayton High School was the last school in Harrow to become comprehensive in September 1975. Later, in 1998, the school became coeducational and changed its name to Harrow High School, a specialist Sports College. The name "Harrow High School" had belonged to an independent school which, until its closure in the late 1980s, occupied a site across the road on Gayton Road.
The school was formerly a boys’ school, only becoming co-educational in 1998, and recently completed its first year as a specialist Sports College. It has gained a number of national awards for the quality of its provision, including the Artsmark Gold award (2003), Sportsmark award (2002), Investors in People (1999) and Careers Education and Guidance award (1996).
[edit] Academy
On 1 August 2011, Harrow High School officially gained academy status.
[edit] Admissions
It is situated close to the University of Westminster Harrow Campus.
Pupils are drawn from, in and around Harrow, though a significant minority travel long distances from areas such as Brent, and they reflect an extensive range of social, ethnic and cultural mix. The school is nondenominational and caters for a number of different religious groups. About one quarter of the pupils are from Asian or Asian British-Indian backgrounds and white British pupils make up about another quarter. Pupils from other ethnic groups are also significantly represented and include about one in five who are refugees and a small number of Traveller children. Over half of the pupils do not have English as their first language, which is much higher than average, and sixty five of these are at an early stage of learning English. A large minority of pupils come from homes that are economically and socially disadvantaged.
Over 30 per cent of pupils receive free school meals, which is above the national average, and the numbers of pupils that join or leave the school midway through the year is high. Pupils’ attainment on entry represents the full range of abilities. Mostly it is below average, but literacy and numeracy skills are very low. About a quarter of the pupils are identified as having special educational needs and twenty of these have a high level of learning difficulty. These proportions are above the average for most secondary schools.
[edit] GCSE Examination Performance
| School | A*-C Pass Rate 2008 |
A*-C Pass Rate 2009 |
A*-C Pass Rate 2010 |
English Baccalaureate Pass Rate 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harrow High School | 52% | 43% | 31% | 5% |
| Average for London Borough of Harrow | 57.7% | 60.8% | 60.7% | 22.6% |
| Average for England | 47.6% | 50.7% | 60.7% | 15.1% |
- The table on shows the percentage of students gaining five A* to C grades, including English and Maths
- The rightmost column shows the percentage of students gaining five A* to C grades, in five core subjects - maths; English; two science qualifications; a foreign language and either history or geography.
- Source: Department for Education [1]
- Full GCSE results for the London Borough of Harrow
[edit] OFSTED Inspection Performance (Office of Standards in Education)
[edit] Alumni
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[edit] Harrow County School for Boys
- Clive Anderson, comedy writer and broadcaster
- Professor Michael Biggs, Professor of Aesthetics, University of Hertfordshire, writer on arts research
- Air Chief Marshal John Boothman KCB KBE DFC AFC Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief RAF Coastal Command 1953-1956
- Donald Box, Conservative MP for Cardiff North 1959-66
- Sir Sydney Caine KCMG Director, London School of Economics 1957-1967
- Sir Horace Cutler OBE, Leader Greater London Council 1977-1981
- Professor Nicholas de Lange, Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Cambridge
- Professor Kel Fidler, Vice Chancellor of University of Northumbria 2001-8, and Chairman of the Engineering Council since 2005
- Andrew Findon, flautist
- Professor Robin Ganellin FRS,[3] Emeritus Professor of Medicinal Chemistry, University College London
- Roger Glover, musician, Deep Purple, Rainbow
- Ian Gillan, musician, lead singer and lyricist for Deep Purple
- Paul Jenkins QC (Hon),[4] HM Procurator General, Treasury Solicitor and Head of the Government Legal Service
- Robin Leach, actor & broadcaster
- Sir Leigh Lewis KCB, former Permanent Secretary, Department for Work and Pensions
- Donald McMorran RA, architect
- Roger Mercer OBE, archaeologist, and President, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 2005-2008
- Sir Derek Morris, former Chairman of the Competition Commission; Provost, Oriel College, Oxford
- Simon Napier-Bell, music manager and record producer
- Stephen Norrington, film director, Blade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
- Sir Paul Nurse PRS, 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; President 2010-2015, Royal Society
- Paul Oliver, architectural historian and writer on the blues and other forms of African-American music.
- Geoffrey Perkins, writer, and former Head of Comedy, BBC Television
- Geoffrey Pinnington, editor of The People 1972-82
- Michael Portillo, journalist and broadcaster, former Conservative politician and Cabinet Minister[5]
- Major-General Andrew Ritchie CBE, Commandant, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 2003-2006
- Cardew Robinson, comic
- Sir Nigel Sheinwald GCMG, British Ambassador to the United States 2007-2012
- Professor Anthony Smith CBE, Director, British Film Institute 1979-1988; President, Magdalen College, Oxford 1988-2005.
- Marvin Sordell, footballer for Watford FC and England Under-21s
- Stephen South, Formula Three driver
- Jamie Stewart (The Cult), musician, The Cult
- Martin Walker, editor-in-chief emeritus, UPI
- Anthony Young, Baron Young of Norwood Green, former Deputy General Secretary, Communication Workers Union; former Governor, BBC; formerly Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Postal Affairs and Employment Relations, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
[edit] Gayton High School
- Angus Fraser, cricketer
- Mark Ramprakash, cricketer
[edit] References
- ^ "Home - The Department for Education". Education.gov.uk. http://www.education.gov.uk/. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
- ^ a b c "Find an inspection report". Ofsted. 2010-12-16. http://ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
- ^ "UCL Chemistry has moved". Chem.ucl.ac.uk. http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/people/ganellin/index.html. Retrieved 2011-12-31.
- ^ http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article5851680.ece
- ^ http://www.harrowobserver.co.uk/west-london-news/local-harrow-news/2011/01/21/michael-portillo-helps-harrow-high-school-celebrate-100th-anniversary-116451-28033027/
