Sir William Ramsay School

Sir William Ramsay School is a co-educational secondary school in Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire. It takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18 with a total of approximately 1,025 pupils attending. The school shares a common catchment area with the nearby Holmer Green Senior School.School HistoryThe school was founded in 1976, and named after Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir William Ramsay, who lived in Hazlemere until his death in 1916. Each year has six forms, though, during 2015/16 a 7th form was introduced due to the increase of students attending the school. Sir William Ramsay has three houses; Blake, Nash and Hepworth. Each house has its own colour with Blake being blue, Nash, red and Hepworth green. Each form is an individual house. In September 2012 Mr Mark Mayne took over from Miss Gaynor Comber as head teacher. He later left in July 2016 and was replaced by deputy headteacher Mr Chris Carter as Acting Headteacher.It was awarded specialist school status as a Visual Arts College by the Department for Education and Skills in September 2000.In 2007, the school opened a multi-million pound performing arts centre. The first performance given by pupils was the musical Grease.In August 2011 the school became an Academy.