Bath High School
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| Established | 1998 (merger) |
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| Type | Independent day and boarding school |
| Religion | Inter-denominational |
| Principal | Mrs Jo Duncan |
| Head of Sixth Form College | Andrew Melton |
| Location |
Lansdown Road Bath Somerset BA1 5SZ England 51°23′49″N 2°21′55″W / 51.3970°N 2.3654°WCoordinates: 51°23′49″N 2°21′55″W / 51.3970°N 2.3654°W |
| Local authority | Bath and North East Somerset |
| DfE URN | 109348 Tables |
| Students | Approx. 700 |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 3–18 |
| Houses |
Grosvenor/Du pré Lansdown/Wollstonecraft Charlcombe/Brontë Northfields/Austen |
| Colours | |
| Website | www.royalhighbath.gdst.net |
The Royal High School is an independent day and boarding school for girls in the city of Bath, Somerset, England, catering for up to 1,000 pupils. The school is located on Lansdown Hill just outside Bath city centre. It has boarding facilities catering for about 150 girls.
Bath High School for Girls was founded in 1875 by the Girls' Public Day School Company (now the Girls' Day School Trust). It was a direct grant grammar school from 1946 until 1976.
The Royal High School was formed by the merger in 1998 of Bath High School (day) and the Royal School (day and boarding). As a result, it is the only member of the Girls' Day School Trust (GDST) to provide boarding accommodation. Now, the Junior School has Cranwell House as its main building, whereas the Senior School has the main school building and the Winfield centre for sixth form students – both on Lansdown Road.
Girls can start in the Nursery School one and a half months before they are three years old. The Junior School will take pupils in September after their fourth birthday. The Junior School has around 200 full-time pupils from Reception to Year 6, and around 20 part-time pupils in the Nursery.
The Junior school is situated in the Cranwell House, in Weston Park, very near to the Senior School.
The senior school is situated in Lansdown Road near Bath city centre.
The main building was built in 1856-8 by James Wilson and is a Grade II listed building. There is an Art School; a Sixth Form café; a fitness suite, a newly refurbished Sixth Form College and boarding house; two Performing Arts Theatres (The Sophie Cameron Performing Arts Centre and The Memorial Hall); The Hudson Centre for lectures and meetings; a swimming pool, tennis courts and hockey pitches; a library and a new Media Centre. The boarding houses are situated in Lansdown Road. The Senior school has a medical centre.
It regularly comes near the top of league tables for Bath schools for GCSE and A-Level results. The school provides Modern Languages including GCSE French, which girls start to learn in Reception class. German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese are also available. The school also provides the IB Programme, where it had an average score of 37 points in 2015.
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