Cranleigh School

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Cranleigh School is an independent English boarding school in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey. It was founded in 1865 as a boys' school and started to admit girls in the early 1970s. It is now co-educational. The current headmaster is Guy Waller.

The school's new Trevor Abbott Sports Centre was opened by Sir Richard Branson and the new West House was opened by Baroness Greenfield.

The school accommodates approximately 600 pupils. The boys are divided into four houses - Cubitt, East, Loveday and North. The girls are divided into two houses - South and West.

Famous Alumni include G.H. Hardy (mathematician); Derek Bourgeois (composer); Andrew Roberts (historian, broadcaster); David Westcott (GB hockey captain); Julia Ormond (actor); E W Swanton (cricket and rugby correspondent, commentator and author); Alan Rusbridger (Guardian Editor); Sir Gordon Brunton (industrialist)

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