Harrow High School
Academy in Harrow, Greater London, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Academy in Harrow, Greater London, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harrow High School is a co-educational academy in the London Borough of Harrow and a specialist Sports College. It was previously called Gayton High School and Harrow County School for Boys. The school has a sixth form for post-16 studies part of the Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate. There was an independent school with the same name on a nearby site until the late 1980s.
Harrow High School | |
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Address | |
Gayton Road , , HA1 2JG England | |
Coordinates | 51°34′50″N 0°19′39″W |
Information | |
Type | Academy |
Established | October 1911 |
Department for Education URN | 137177 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Headmaster | Paul Gamble |
Gender | Co-educational |
Age | 11 to 18 |
Enrolment | 824 |
Former pupils | Old Gaytonians |
Website | http://www.hhsweb.org/ |
The site was formerly the home of Harrow County School for Boys, a grammar school. In 1975, when the London Borough of Harrow adopted a comprehensive system of education, the school became known as Gayton High School: it remained an all-boys school.
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 school 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).
On 1 August 2011, Harrow High School officially gained academy status.
The name "Harrow High School" previously belonged to an independent school which, until its closure in the late 1980s, occupied a site across the road from the current school, on Gayton Road.
Visitors
On the 10 July 2024 Malala Yousafzai has visited harrow high school and did a ten minute long livestream .
The Old Gaytonians Association gained its first two members in October 1911 but the association was officially established on 27 September 1912.[1] It was closed on 30 September 2016.[2]
It was named after the school publication of the same name, this name was chosen because the school site was on 'Gayton Road'.[1]
This article's list of alumni may not follow Wikipedia's verifiability policy. (December 2011) |
The following were educated at the then Harrow County School for Boys:[3][4]
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