George Abbot School
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| Motto | Non Sibi Sed Toti Not For Oneself But For All |
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| Established | 1957 (when it opened or 1959 when it was renamed) |
| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Mrs Kate Carriett |
| Chair of Governors | Vivienne Johnson |
| Location |
Woodruff Avenue Burpham Guildford Surrey GU1 1XX England Coordinates: 51°15′14″N 0°32′53″W / 51.254°N 0.548°W |
| DfE number | 936/4456 |
| DfE URN | 136906 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Capacity | 1932 |
| Students | 1946 as of September 2015[update] |
| Gender | Mixed-sex |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Falcon, Gryphon, Martlet, Wyvern and Phoenix |
| Colours | Navy, Gold |
| Website | georgeabbot |
George Abbot School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Burpham, north-east of the town centre of Guildford. The school is named after the Guildford-native 17th-century Archbishop of Canterbury George Abbot. Surrey County Cricket Club's Cricket Academy is in the grounds of the school.
The school is currently under the leadership of headteacher Mrs. Kate Carriet. The school caters for seven years (years 7 to 13, typically ages 11 to 18) with years 7 to 11 each split into ten classes containing around 30 pupils which totals around 300 students a year. In a given year, the school may teach an additional form, Q, to help students who are underperforming at the school. 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.
The two main buildings are Elmslie and Raynham, named after the two headteachers when the buildings were separate schools, Miss Elmslie for girls, and Mr Raynham for boys.
In addition to these, the school has a textiles block, art block, photography block (which was also the old sixth form centre), sports hall (Surrey County Cricket Club's Cricket Academy), Wilson building (for English) and has in 2006 completed the building of a performing arts centre (which includes the sixth form centre).
Elmslie building has 3 food technology classrooms, the humanities department, 2 computer rooms, biology laboratories, leisure and tourism classrooms and business studies classrooms. It also includes the main reception, the lower school library (known as the Gallery because of the art work displayed at the entrance), Elmslie Hall, a small canteen, Fitness Suite and 2 gyms. Year 8 and 9 have their tutor rooms in Elmslie.
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