Tring School
{{For|the Arts School|Tring Park School for the Performing Arts}}
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{{Use British English|date=October 2013}}
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| name = Tring School
| image = TringSchool.png
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| coordinates = {{coord|51.798119|-0.654513|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dec|display=inline,title}}
| motto = Live to Learn, Learn to Live{{cite web| title=Our Aims| publisher=Tring School| url=http://www.tring.herts.sch.uk/about_us/aims.html| access-date=2008-08-23|url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006230812/http://www.tring.herts.sch.uk/about_us/aims.html| archive-date=6 October 2007}}
| established = {{start date and age|1842}}
| type = Academy
| religious_affiliation = Church of England
| president =
| head_label = CEO of RLP
| head = N/A
| r_head_label = Head of School
| r_head = S Ambrose
| chair_label = Chair of Governors
| chair = A Kent
| founder = Rev. Edward I. Randloph
| specialist =
| address = Mortimer Hill
| city = Tring
| county = Hertfordshire
| country = ENG
| postcode = HP23 5JD
| local_authority =
| ofsted = yes
| urn = 138352
| staff = 200+
| enrolment = 1,545
| gender =
| lower_age = 11
| upper_age = 18
| houses = {{color box|blue}} Ascott
{{color box|red}} Claydon
{{color box|green}} Halton
{{color box|yellow}} Waddesdon
| colours = {{color box|maroon}} Maroon {{color box|Black}} Black
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| Alumni = Old Tringians
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| website = {{URL|http://www.tring.herts.sch.uk/}}
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Tring School is a secondary school with academy status, with approximately 1,500 students aged between 11 and 18. It is located on Mortimer Hill on the east side of the town of Tring, Hertfordshire, England. Tring School includes a Sixth Form with over 300 students. The school was founded by the Church of England and is within the Diocesan Board of Education of the St Albans Diocese.
History
In the early 19th century, the only education local children received was from the church-run school of St Peter and St Paul's, which taught around 240 pupils together in the Vestry Hall. However this was insufficient because the school only operated on Sundays and, in the opinion of the Brougham inspectors of 1811 at least, was severely unprovided for in comparison with Long Marston school, which contained only 92 students.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
Tring National School was founded in 1842 by Church of England Revd Edward I. Randolph, with the assistance of a grant from the National Society, on land granted by the Dean and Chapter of Christ Church, Oxford. At that time it was built on Aylesbury Road in the middle of Tring, where Tring Library now stands.{{cite book
| title = A Hertfordshire Valley | first = Scott | last = Hastie
| publisher = Alpine Press | location = Kings Langley | year = 1996
| isbn = 0-9528631-0-3
}}{{cite web | title=About Our School – History | publisher=Bishop Wood School | url=http://www.bishopwood.herts.sch.uk/our_school/history.html | access-date=2008-10-28 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629042327/http://www.bishopwood.herts.sch.uk/our_school/history.html | archive-date=29 June 2008 }}{{cite web | title=The School | publisher=Tring School | url=http://www.tring.herts.sch.uk/about_us/history.html | access-date=2008-10-28 |url-status = dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919140555/http://www.tring.herts.sch.uk/about_us/history.html | archive-date=19 September 2008 }}
During the First World War, the school building was taken over as a military hospital.
In the 1930s the junior and secondary departments were re-organised as separate schools, though still occupying the same building. The junior school would later become Bishop Wood C of E Junior School. In 1956 the senior school, now known as Tring School, moved to its present site at the top of Mortimer Hill, to the east of the town, and in 1969 it was re-organised as an all-ability 11–19 co-educational school.{{cite book
| title = Hertfordshire Children in War and Peace 1914–1939
| author = David Parket
| publisher = University of Hertfordshire Press | year = 2007
| isbn = 978-1-905313-40-2
| pages = 234
}}
The school converted to academy status in August 2012 and then became part of the Ridgeway Learning Partnership in December 2017.
Academic standards
Following the Ofsted inspection in November 2017, Tring School was rated Good with an Outstanding sixth form, Outstanding personal development and Outstanding behaviour.{{cite web |last1=Carpenter |first1=Jenny |title=Tring School |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2742785 |publisher=Ofsted |access-date=3 March 2025 |date=2017}} It was inspected again in 2023 and the previous judgement of Good was reconfirmed; {{as of|2025}}, this is the most recent inspection.{{cite web |last1=Phillips |first1=Mark |title=Inspection of a good school: Tring School |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/50221524 |publisher=Ofsted |access-date=3 March 2025 |date=2023}} The school was also rated 'Good' under the SIAMS inspection framework in May 2019 with 'Outstanding' Religious Education.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
Alumni
- Lawrence Ward, former Serjeant at Arms of the British House of Commons was a pupil from 1979 until 1984.Lawrence Ward Serjeant at Arms
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.tring.herts.sch.uk/}}
- [https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/school/138352/tring-school/secondary Department for Education Performance Tables]
- [https://www.stalbans.anglican.org/schools/inspections-siams/ Diocese of St Albans SIAMS (Statutory Inspections)]
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Category:Secondary schools in Hertfordshire
Category:Educational institutions established in 1842
Category:Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of St Albans