Stanborough School is a secondary academy school located in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. It is situated off Stanborough Road (A6129), near the A1(M), and across the road from the headquarters of Hertfordshire Constabulary, a golf driving range and the Gosling Sports Park. The East Coast Main Line is about 1 km away.
It was founded by Richard Dickington during WW2 for evacuated children to get an education. It was originally a grammar school (1939-1968), then a comprehensive school (1968-2012), and in 2012 it became an academy.
History Grammar school Stanborough School was founded as a selective grammar school in 1939. It had around 550 girls and boys in the 1960s.
Comprehensive It became an all-ability comprehensive school in 1968. In the early 1980s it had around 900 boys and girls.
Merger with Sir John Newsom School In September 1998, nearby Sir John Newsom School was merged with Stanborough School and its pupils transferred across to the Stanborough site.
Academy status The school gained academy status in February 2012 with a specialism in maths and computing. The school is independent of local authority control and is legally a private company limited by guarantee registered at Companies House with registration number 07900439.
Sixth Form Consortium Stanborough Sixth form is part of a wider consortium of many secondary schools in the area. Stanborough offers a range of subjects at A level on site. English, History, Mathematics, Science, Computer Science, Psychology are just a few examples. Other schools aligned with the sixth form consortium include: Monk's Walk School Ridgeway Academy Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School Onslow St Audrey's School
Academic performance
Stanborough School often achieves GCSE results above the national average, with 51% of pupils achieving the equivalent of five or more GCSEs grade C or above including English and Maths in 2012. Their A Level results are consistently one of the highest of maintained schools in Hertfordshire.
Notable former pupils Welwyn Garden City Stanborough Grammar School Prof Roger Heath-Brown, Professor of Pure Mathematics since 1999 at the University of Oxford Alex Larke, musician and UK Eurovision Song Contest representative in 2015 Michael Peacock OBE, television executive, Controller of BBC1 from 1965–7, and chairman from 1989 to 1995 of UBC Media Group Prof Michael Talbot, James and Constance Alsop Professor of Music from 1986 to 2003 at the University of Liverpool Glyn Maxwell, poet Prof. Jonathan Gregory, Professor of Climate Change and Modelling at the University of Reading and the Met Office. Klaus Hasselmann, 2021 Nobel Laureate in Physics
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