Holmer Green Senior School

Academy in Holmer Green, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England

51°39′56″N 0°41′53″W / 51.66563°N 0.69799°W / 51.66563; -0.69799InformationTypeAcademyMotto‘Work Hard, Be Kind, Have Passion’SpecialistBusiness and Enterprise schoolDepartment for Education URN138058 TablesOfstedReportsHeadmasterEd HilyardGenderCoeducationalAge11 to 18Enrolment849Websitewww.hgss.co.uk

Holmer Green Senior School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Holmer Green, Buckinghamshire, England. The school has approximately 860 pupils.^[1] The school shares a common catchment area with the nearby Sir William Ramsay School.

In September 2006 the school was designated by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) as a specialist school in Business & Enterprise.^[2]

In 2008, the school was one of 34 UK secondary schools to win the NACE challenge award for its approach to able, gifted and talented children.^[3]

In 2016 the school was inspected by Ofsted and awarded a 'good' rating with inspectors saying pupils were 'exceptionally well prepared for life in modern Britain'.

Notable former pupils

James Corden, television host, actor, comedian, and singer.^[4]
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, actor^[5]

Phone masts

Holmer Green Senior School is one of several Buckinghamshire schools which hosts mobile phone masts. Contracts between Buckinghamshire County Council and various mobile phone operators generate an income of £145,000 per annum, of which about £59,000 comes from contracts for masts that are installed in schools. ^[6]

References

^ "Schools Directory". Buckinghamshire County Council. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 21 September 2006.
^ "Specialist Schools Home". DfES. July 2006. Archived from the original on 3 August 2006. Retrieved 28 July 2006.
^ "NACE challenge award". NACE. 2008. Archived from the original on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 28 July 2008.
^ "It's all down to confidence". Newsquest Media Group. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
^ "Holmer Green Senior School | Beyond HGSS". Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
^ "Questions and Answers for County Council Meeting" (PDF). Buckinghamshire County Council. 22 January 2004. Retrieved 16 April 2007. ^{[dead link]}