Holmer Green Senior School

Holmer Green Senior School (HGSS)
Motto	"Achievement and Opportunity for all"
Type	Academy
Headmaster	Mr Michael Jones
Deputy Head	Mr Peter Tang
Location	Parish Piece Holmer Green, High Wycombe Buckinghamshire HP15 6SP United Kingdom England Coordinates: 51°39′56″N 0°41′53″W / 51.66563°N 0.69799°W / 51.66563; -0.69799
DfE number	825/4070
DfE URN	138058 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	849
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18
Houses	4
Colours	red, yellow, green and blue
Website	www.holmer.bucks.sch.uk

Holmer Green Senior School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Holmer Green, Buckinghamshire, England. The school has approximately 860 pupils.^[1] The school shares a common catchment area with the nearby Sir William Ramsay School.

In September 2006 the school was designated by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) as a specialist school in Business & Enterprise.^[2]

In 2008, the school was one of 34 UK secondary schools to win the NACE challenge award for its approach to able, gifted and talented children.^[3] In the same year, it also received an excellent Ofsted report which compared favourably to other secondary schools nearby.^[4]

Notable former pupils

Phone masts

Holmer Green Senior School is one of several Buckinghamshire schools which host mobile phone masts. Contracts between Buckinghamshire County Council and various mobile phone operators generate an income of £145,000 per annum, of which about £59,000 comes from contracts for masts that are installed in schools. ^[7] ^[8]

References

↑ "Schools Directory". Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved 2006-09-21.
↑ "Specialist Schools Home". DfES. July 2006. Retrieved 2006-07-28.
↑ "NACE challenge award". NACE. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-28.
↑ "Ofsted report" (PDF). Ofsted. June 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-28.
↑ "It's all down to confidence". Newsquest Media Group. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
↑ http://www.hgss.co.uk/default.aspx?id=373
↑ "Questions and Answers for County Council Meeting" (PDF). Buckinghamshire County Council. 22 January 2004. Retrieved 2007-04-16.
↑ "Is there a mast near you?". News of the World. Archived from the original on 2006-12-05. Retrieved 2007-04-16.

External links

Department for Education Performance Tables 2011

Schools in Buckinghamshire

Primary	Hawridge and Cholesbury CofE School St Michael's Catholic School

Non-selective secondary	Amersham School The Aylesbury Vale Academy The Beaconsfield School Bourne End Academy Buckingham School Buckinghamshire UTC Chalfonts Community College Chiltern Hills Academy The Cottesloe School Cressex Community School The E-ACT Burnham Park Academy The Grange School Great Marlow School Highcrest Academy Holmer Green Senior School John Colet School Mandeville School The Misbourne School Princes Risborough School St Michael's Catholic School Sir Thomas Fremantle School Sir William Ramsay School Waddesdon Church of England School

Grammar	Aylesbury Grammar School Aylesbury High School Beaconsfield High School Burnham Grammar School Chesham Grammar School Dr Challoner's Grammar School Dr Challoner's High School John Hampden Grammar School Royal Grammar School Royal Latin School Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School Sir William Borlase's Grammar School Wycombe High School

Independent	Akeley Wood School Pipers Corner School Stowe School Teikyo School Wycombe Abbey

Special	Alfriston School Chiltern Way Federation Furze Down School MacIntyre School The PACE Centre Pebble Brook School Stocklake Park Community School

Further education	Aylesbury College Amersham & Wycombe College

Defunct	Amersham Hall Lady Verney High School London Central Elementary High School

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