We are a co-educational day and boarding school with just over

600 pupils aged two to 18,” says Martin Priestley, Headmaster of Warminster

School.

“Our Prep School and Nursery cater for just over 150 up to the

age of 11, with the Senior School numbering around 470 students aged 11-18.

“More distinctively, perhaps, we are a school which strives for

excellence without elitism. We have been around for over 300 years, but ours is

a forward-looking and holistic vision of what education should be. It is my

belief the curriculum of any good school is everything you do.

“Of course, at the heart of that is a focus on academic studies.

Our results have risen dramatically in recent years – over half of A-levels

completed in 2009 were at grades A or B and, in terms of UCAS points, results

have risen by over 20 per cent in the last two years alone.

“In addition, we believe in choice. We were the first school in

the South West to offer our Sixth Formers the International Baccalaureate

Diploma as an alternative to the traditional A-level route.

“We are a ‘broad church’ academically, yet our brightest produce

results of which any school in the country would be rightly proud. A number of

our A-level students attained straight As, and our top IB candidate of 2009

scored an astonishing 44 points out of 45 – placing her in the top one per cent

of IB candidates in the world. Around 95 per cent of our leavers go on to Higher

Education.

“Living is learning – that is one reason why I am so proud of our

broad cultural, sporting, musical, dramatic and artistic provision.”