Sir William Ramsay School
Established	1976
School type	Co-Educational Secondary School
Headteacher	Gaynor Comber
Location	Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Students	900
Email	office@sirwilliamramsay.bucks.sch.uk
Website	www.sirwilliamramsay.bucks.sch.uk

Sir William Ramsay School is a co-educational secondary school in Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire. It is a community school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 900 pupils. The school is currently going under a massive multi-million pound development, this will form the new performing arts centre. It is scheduled to be completed this month (feb 2007) but is currently not looking like it. they have bare mounts to do! ^[1] The school shares a common catchment area with the nearby Holmer Green Senior School. Image File history File links Sir_wi2. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women at the same school facilities. ... Secondary school is the term used to describe an institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place. ... Hazlemere is a suburb of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England and within Wycombe District. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is one of the home counties in South East England. ... Education in England is the responsibility of Department for Education and Skills at national level and, in the case of publicly funded compulsory education, of Local Education Authorities. ... Hazlemere is a suburb of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England and within Wycombe District. ... Buckinghamshire (abbreviated Bucks) is one of the home counties in South East England. ... Education in England is the responsibility of Department for Education and Skills at national level and, in the case of publicly funded compulsory education, of Local Education Authorities. ... Holmer Green Senior School is a mixed secondary school in Holmer Green, Buckinghamshire. ...

The school is named after Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir William Ramsay, who lived in Hazlemere until his death in 1916. Nobel Prize medal. ... Sir William Ramsay (October 2, 1852 – July 23, 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 (along with Lord Rayleigh who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for the discovery of argon). ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ...

In September 2000 the school was awarded specialist school status as a Visual Arts College, by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). ^[2] This article is about the year 2000. ... The specialist schools programme is a UK government programme which encourages secondary schools to specialise in certain areas to boost acheivement. ... Arts Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. ... The Department for Education and Skills is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. ...

References

1. ^ Schools Directory. Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved on 2006-08-03.
2. ^ Specialist Schools Home. DfES (July 2006). Retrieved on 2006-07-28.

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External links

• School website
• Ofsted Report 2005
• Ofsted Report 1999
• DfES Performance Tables