Description
The school provides secondary education for boys and girls aged from 11 to 16. It is categorised as a community school, which means it is run wholly by the local education authority (LEA). The school has been granted specialist science status, for which the school receives funding additional to its normal budget. The school has remained a comprehensive school, and has thus not taken the option available to specialist schools to select a proportion of its pupils.
Though the school does not provide higher education, it has links with both Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke and the Basingstoke College of Technology, where some pupils continue education after the age of 16.
The school has approximately 1000 pupils. Pupils come from a catchment area which includes the nearby town of Tadley and the villages of Silchester, Bramley, and Sherborne St John.
Students in the school are divided among four houses, named after ships of the United Kingdom navy: Challenger, Endeavour, Invincible, and Victory. These houses compete in sports, talent contests and other events.
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