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Farnham Heath End School

Farnham Heath End School
Type Academy
Headteacher Nick Phillips
Location Hale Reeds
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 9BN
 England
51°13′55″N 0°47′01″W / 51.23199°N 0.78348°W / 51.23199; -0.78348Coordinates: 51°13′55″N 0°47′01″W / 51.23199°N 0.78348°W / 51.23199; -0.78348
DfE number 936/4052
DfE URN 139486 Tables
Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports
Students 900
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–16
Houses
  • Owens
  • Austen
  • Brunel
  • Nightingale
Website www.fhes.org.uk

Farnham Heath End School is a mixed coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Heath End, Surrey in south-east of England, with roughly 900 pupils.

In April 2013 the school gained Specialist Mathematics and Computing College status. The school also has "Healthy School" status and is also accredited as an "Investor in People". It is on a rising roll and in February 2011 was rated by Ofsted as a "Satisfactory" school. The initial part of the report stated:

Farnham Heath End School is providing a satisfactory and improving quality of education. The many strengths in teaching contribute to it being good overall.

When Ofsted visited the school in 2012, they marked it as a "Good" school, improving on the previous standard.

On 11 February 2011 the school management became embroiled in controversy as they informed parents of the death of a pupil during a PE lesson by text message.

The houses are named after famous people:

Houses were introduced in 2008

Notable alumni of the school include Carole Hersee who holds the longest television appearance in history at 70,000 hours, Joel Freeland, a professional basketball player and Kylie Grimes a paralympic wheel-chair rugby player, author Keith A Pearson, and Jann Turner author of Heartland and Southern Cross, who was Head Girl c. 1980.


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