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Headington School
Headington School
Address
	Headington Road; Oxford, OX3 0BL; England
Information
Type	Private day and boarding school
Motto	Αγωνίζου τον καλόν αγώνα της πίστεως; (1 Timothy: 6:12. English: Fight the good fight of Faith)
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Established	1915
Local authority	Oxfordshire
Headmistress	Caroline Jordan
Gender	Girls
Age	3 to 18
Enrolment	1020~
Colour(s)
Song	Fight the Good Fight
Former pupils	Headingtonians
Website	http://www.headington.org/

Headington School is an independent girls' school in Headington, Oxford, England, founded by a group of evangelical Christians in 1915.

In 2024, it merged with Rye St Antony School to form Headington Rye Oxford.

History

Headington School was founded in 1915 by a group of evangelical Christians to provide "a sound education for girls to fit them for the demands and opportunities likely to arise after the war". It started at Headington Lodge on Osler Road with ten boarding and eight-day girls. As the school rapidly expanded after the war, more buildings were bought and added to the school.

In 1920, Davenport House, one of the current boarding houses, (on the corner of London Road and Pullens Lane) was taken over by the school. The house had a 2-acre (0.81 ha) garden and another 19 acres (7.7 ha) of farmland attached stretching as far east as the White Horse pub. The main school then moved to its current building, built in the neo-Georgian style, in 1930. In 1942 it was registered as an educational charity, in recognition of the benefits that it provides to its pupils and the wider community.^[1]

Headington Prep

The preparatory school is located on a separate site across the junction where Headington Road and Headley Way meet. The premises which house the prep school were originally known as Brookside. They were taken over by the school in 1916. Built in 1886, they were first occupied by Thomas Arnall, Oxford's Head Postmaster. The school renamed them Napier House when they moved out of the original Headington house with that name.^[1] Since the prep school moved in, the facilities have been extended but the main house is still in use. Its pupils uses some facilities of the senior school, such as the swimming pool, playing field, all-weather surface and theatre.

Both the prep and senior schools share the same governing body. Until the 2007–08 school year it admitted boys up to age 7. It is a member of the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools.

School Fees

Fees at Headington School include:^[2]

All necessary educational materials (unless otherwise specified)
School lunches
Morning snacks

Fees per term	Day	Half-Weekly Boarding	Weekly Boarding	Full Boarding
Sixth Form Current Pupils	£7,515	£10,034	£12,553	£15,027
Sixth Form Direct Entrants	£8,180	£11,048	£13,918	£16,466
Upper 3 – Upper 5	£7,515	£10,034	£12,553	£15,027

Facilities

The school embarked on a series of building projects during the early 2000s, beginning with the Art Department, the professional-standard Theatre at Headington (2002), Napier Boarding House (2003), a large Dining Hall (2005), and most recently the new Music School, which opened in 2009.^[3] These complement the original neo-Georgian senior school building constructed in the 1930s.

There are 23 acres of grounds and playing fields, tennis courts, swimming pool and a floodlit Astroturf pitch.^[4] The school also owns the Headington School Oxford Boat Club^[5] and is one of the few schools in the country to offer equestrian facilities.^[6]

Houses

There are 10 competitive houses named after previous headteachers surnames. Each House is led by a member of staff and a Sixth Form prefect.

Dunn
Sender
Jones
King
Moller
Porcher
Rendall
Sunpter
Tucker
Coutts

The names of the houses were changed when Headington School merged with Rye St Antony School.

Year groups

Headington uses its own nomenclature for the year groups.

Preparatory School

Name	Year
Nursery	Nursery
Pre-Kindergarten	Reception
Kindergarten	Year 1
Transition	Year 2
Form 1	Year 3
Lower 2	Year 4
Upper 2	Year 5
Lower 3	Year 6

Senior School

Division	Name	Year
Lower School	Upper 3	Year 7
Lower School	Lower 4	Year 8
Middle School	Upper 4	Year 9
	Lower 5	Year 10
	Upper 5	Year 11
Sixth Form	Lower 6	Year 12
Sixth Form	Upper 6	Year 13

Boarding

Headington offers both full-time, part-time or flex-boarding to girls aged 9 and above. Approximately one third of its pupils are boarders.^[7] They are grouped by years and reside in four boarding houses.

Davenport: U2 (Year 5) to U4 (Year 9)
Hillstow: U4 to U6 (Year 13)
Napier: L5 (Year 10) to U6
Celia Marsh: L6 & U6 (Sixth Form)
MacGregor: L6 & U6 – attached to Celia Marsh House

Curriculum

Headington is one of the higher achieving independent schools in Oxfordshire.^[8]^[9]

The International Baccalaureate was offered alongside A Levels from September 2009.^[10]

In 2018 Headington School achieved an average IBDP points score of 38.5 per student out of a maximum score of 45 points, making them the 7th best IB school in the UK and the 12th best IB school in the World as per the league tables published by Education Advisers Ltd.^{[citation needed]}

Headington School ceased to offer the International Baccalaureate from September 2020.

Extra-curricular activities

Headington offers over 50 different extracurricular activities ranging from sport to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Headington's Combined Cadet Force is one of only four all girls contingents in the country.^[4]

Sports teams and athletes regularly take part in competitions at county or national level.^[6]^[11]^[12]^[13]

The rowing team (Headington School Oxford Boat Club) is one of the county's most successful school teams. It won the girls eights category at the National Schools Regatta in 2001^[14] and completed the rare "Women's triple" in 2009, 2014, 2015, and 2016 by winning the National Schools, Schools Head and Henley.^[15] It has also performed well in the South of England Indoor Rowing Championships, winning five overall classes in 2008^[16] and finishing runners-up in 2010.^[17] Two of its members were chosen to represent Great Britain at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore and claimed a gold medal in the girls' pair category.^[18]

In 2013 seven Headington girls won their category in the Oxford Music Festival and the sixth form vocal ensemble The Eleven received the top choral prize.^[19]

Notable former pupils

Freya Allan, actress (The Witcher, Gunpowder Milkshake)^[20]
Lily van den Broecke, Great Britain Rowing Paralympian: Gold London 2012
Angela Gallop, British Forensic Scientist
Fiona Gammond, Great Britain Rowing Olympian
Frances Gardner, cardiologist
Katie Greves, Olympic Silver Medallist, European Champion and Triple Olympian in rowing
Alice Hart-Davis, journalist
Elizabeth Curzon, Countess Howe, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire
Janet Husband, Emeritus Professor of Radiology
Khadija Bukar Abba Ibrahim, Member of the Nigerian House of Representatives
Lady Elizabeth Longford, biographer
Elinor Lyon, children's author^[21]
Ann Mallalieu, Baroness Mallalieu, barrister, politician, and president of the Countryside Alliance
Ghislaine Maxwell, former socialite and convicted sex offender
Ann Katharine Mitchell, 1922 - 2020, British codebreaker and social scientist
Christina Onassis, shipping magnate
Caryn Agyeman Prempeh, medical practitioner and television personality
Julia Somerville, former BBC News and ITV News presenter
Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill, daughter of the 11th Duke of Marlborough
Sophie Sumner, model
Jane Tewson, founder of Comic Relief
Emma Watson, actress
Barbara Woodhouse, TV personality and dog trainer
Oluyinka Idowu, 1992 Olympic Games & 1994 Commonwealth Silver Medalist.
Janet Young, Baroness Young, former Leader of the House of Lords