Harrow High School | |
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Location | |
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Gayton Road , , HA1 2JG England | |
Coordinates | 51°34′50″N0°19′39″W / 51.58053°N 0.32752°W |
Information | |
Type | Academy |
Established | October 1911 |
Department for Education URN | 137177 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Headmaster | Paul Gamble |
Gender | Co-educational |
Age | 11to 18 |
Enrolment | 824 |
Former pupils | Old Gaytonians |
Website | http://www.hhsweb.org/ |
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.
The school was formerly Harrow County School for Boys, a grammar school. In 1975, when the London Borough of Harrow adopted the comprehensive system of education, it was renamed Gayton High School (after its address on Gayton Road); it remained an all-boys school.
In 1998, the school became coeducational and changed its name to Harrow High School.
On 1 August 2011, Harrow High School officially gained academy status.
The name "Harrow High School" had formerly belonged to an independent school which, until its closure in the late 1980s, occupied a site across the road from the current school.
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]