Royal High School, Bath

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**Royal High School, Bath**
Headmaster (senior school)	James Graham-Brown
Headmistress (junior school)	Helen Fathers
Founded	1996 (merge of the Royal School and Bath High School)
School type	Private day and boarding school with Nursery (2-4) Junior (4-11) and Senior (11-18) divisions
Gender	Girls only from nursery through to sixth form
Location	Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom
Total pupils	Approx 1000 (inc Sixth Form)

The Royal High School is a private girls' school in the city of Bath, catering for approximately 1000 pupils in total. It regularly comes near the top of league tables for Bath schools for GCSE and A-Level results. In particular the school is noted for its Modern Languages department which frequently produces several of the top five performing candidates at GCSE for French, German, Spanish and Italian.

The school is located on Lansdown hill just outside Bath city centre. It has boarding facilities catering for about 100 girls.

The school's music department has several choirs and an orchestra which often take part in regional competitions. The choirs have recently been on tour to Rome, Kraków, and Prague. The school has sports facilities on the Lansdown site and at the nearby Churchill fields on Lansdown. (These fields are often just called 'Chill' due to the exposed location of them.)

The Royal High School is part of the Girls' Day School Trust network. It is the only member of the GDST to provide boarding accommodation - this is as a result of the merger that created the Royal High in 1996 (Bath High School (day) and the Royal School (day and boarding) joined together). Now, the Junior School has Hope House as its main building, whereas the Senior School has the main school building and the Winfield centre for sixth form students.