Shipston High School

Welcome to Shipston High School

A "good" school with "outstanding" features

Ofsted November 2009

Welcome to the Shipston High School Website. We hope you will be able to find all the information you need about the school. For any further information please do not hesitate to contact us. 

Of course there is nothing like a visit to find out all the different reasons why this is such a highly successful and sought-after school and why, in our recent Ofsted inspection (November 2009), we were judged to be a "good" school with some "outstanding" features.  We feel we are very privileged to be a small school in an attractive rural setting with a very student-centred, high achieving ethos.  This is also an exceptionally busy school.  There is always a buzz of activity both during the school day and out of it.  As a consequence we have achieved outstanding success in a wide variety of areas including technology, sport, drama, creative arts and public speaking.

Without a doubt, our best advertisement is our students.  In our Ofsted inspection our students were described as "exemplary" and their behaviour was officially judged as "outstanding".  They are undoubtedly highly motivated, make excellent progress and show a real desire to learn.  They also develop considerable resources of initiative and enterprise.  Their contribution to the school and wider community was similarly judged as "outstanding".  The inspectors were genuinely taken aback by the large numbers of students who volunteer to be involved in the "remarkably rich variety of very popular extra-curricular and enrichment activities on offer".