George Abbot School is a large state secondary school with Arts College status in Burpham, north-east of the town of Guildford. The school is named after the 17th-century Archbishop of Canterbury George Abbot who came from Guildford. Surrey County Cricket Club's Cricket Academy is located in the grounds of the school.
The school is currently under the leadership of headteacher Danny Moloney. The school caters for seven years (years 7 to 13, typically ages 11 to 18) with years 7 to 11 each split into ten 30-pupil classes totalling 300 students a year. The school is often oversubscribed with up to 350 students applying for the 300 spaces available in September each year. It currently has 1,924 students on roll with around 400 in the sixth form.
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