The Campion School is a Catholic boys' comprehensive school and mixed sixth form located in Hornchurch, in the London Borough of Havering. The school has been awarded Specialist Science College status.
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It was founded in September 1962 as a grammar school for Catholic boys from the ages of 11-16. Pupils who attend the school are mainly Catholic and the school has a strong Catholic ethos. The school also has an attached Sixth Form which admits a number of girls. The pupils that attend the Sixth Form do not have to be Catholic but have to respect the Catholic ethos that the school represents.
The school received an Ofsted report early in 2007 which said the school was good. Out of the 26 areas Ofsted looked at, 15 were outstanding and 10 were good and the other needed improvement. They also said that the school's Sixth Form was outstanding. Out of the 12 areas Ofsted looked at, all of them were outstanding.[1] It also received an excellent Diocesan report which found the R. E. Department and The Campion School to be outstanding.
The Campion School has three main aims:
The school currently has five forms:
All of these forms, except Fox, are named after Catholic saints who were martyred. Fox is named after the school's first headmaster Fr. Michael James Fox SJ.
The school has an outstanding sporting reputation both locally in Havering and nationally with the pinnacle being its strong Rugby tradition. The first fifteen won the Daily Mail Cup, the premier school rugby competition in the country in 2001.