The Royal School, Hampstead is an independent girls' day and boarding school located in Hampstead, London, England. The school educates over 200 girls aged 3-16. The current headteacher is Joanna Ebner.[1] The school has announced that it will be merging with Northbridge House School at the end of this academic year (2011/12) and will be under the management of Cognita. The current head will leave at the end of 2011/12 school year.
The GCSE pass rate, in 2008, was 99%, with 89% of pupils gaining A* to C grades and a third achieving either A* or A grades.[2]
The London Borough of Camden suffers severe congestion because of parents ferrying their children to and from school by car. However, The Royal School has introduced a range of initiatives to help address this problem.[3]
Dr Rashmi Patel, the appointed dentist to the school, received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2004.[4]
The Royal School was founded in 1855 as the Soldiers' Infant Home before becoming the Royal Soldiers' Daughters' School. It was established "to nurse, board, clothe and educate the female children, orphans or not, of soldiers in Her Majesty's Army killed in the Crimean War".[5] Today, the patron of the school is Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. The Duchess visited the school, on 25 February 2009, to thank them for their fund raising activities for her charity, the National Osteoporosis Society.[6][7]