Hampton School

A Message of Welcome from the Headmaster, Barry Martin MA MBA FCMI FRSA

Whether you are a current parent, are considering sending your son here or are an Old Hamptonian, we hope that you will easily find the information and contact details you need on our website.

Founded during the academic year 1556-1557, Hampton has built on the strengths of its grammar school ethos since independence in 1975 and remains a day school for boys, with two main intakes at 11+ and 13+ as well as entry into the Sixth Form.

We have always had a strong academic tradition as our GCSE and A level results show. The statistics are unquestionably impressive, but cannot adequately reflect the huge range of intellectual and co-curricular activities undertaken by our pupils on a daily basis.

We are extremely fortunate to have superb teachers and support staff, who work tirelesly together to offer our boys the balanced, all-round education to which we are fully committed. We strive to create an environment which provides the breadth, balance, confidence and self-assurance that will enable our boys not only to make sense of the world but also to want to go out and improve it.

Within this environment we define education as being about learning processes and skills but also about developing a spirit of enquiry and acquiring hard knowledge. It should also, of course, be fun.

Above all, our aim is for those leaving Hampton to be bright, interesting and interested, flexible, forward-looking, tolerant, compassionate, confident not arrogant, ambitious not pretentious, full of conviction but not dogmatic, open-minded but with an ingrained knowledge or right from wrong, and admiring of the successful but supportive of those who are less so.

Please read our Inspection Report. This recognises both our outstanding academic success and the strength of our wide-ranging co curricular programme. Most significantly, perhaps, the inspectors rated our pastoral care as “excellent”. Our Governors ensure that our Development Plan provides the resources needed by a leading educational institution.

As a boys-only school, we can concentrate fully on boys' specific interests and building their confidence and self-esteem during the teenage years. We can design our teaching specifically to meet boys’ learning needs and preferences, enabling the overwhelming majority of our leavers to join leading universities. Yet we are not just a single sex school. The many areas of cooperation with our neighbours, the Lady Eleanor Holles School for girls, lead to what both schools recognise as “the best of both worlds”.

For a fuller flavour of what Hampton has to offer, please follow the links to News from Hampton and The Lion or read about us in the Good Schools Guide.

I encourage you to visit us with your son and you will receive a warm welcome: please visit the Admissions section to find out more. Hampton School is a thriving community - we hope you will take the opportunity to visit us and see for yourself.