Abbotsfield School for Boys is a secondary school in Hillingdon, within the London Borough of Hillingdon. The school is the only boys school in the borough and shares a site with Swakeleys School for Girls in Clifton Gardens. The current headteacher is Mark Bland.
Abbotsfield is also a Specialist School in Maths and Computing with Applied Learning.
Notable alumni of the school include the rock musician Ian Mosley (drummer with Marillion), astrologer Russell Grant, and comedian Rowland Rivron.
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