Reading School

Reading School is a grammar school in the town of Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom. It is a single-sex boys school, which selects all of its incoming students on the basis of examined ability, usually at age 11, with a few entrants at 13 and 16. It is state-funded, so there are no fees for day pupils and boarders only pay for food and lodgings, not schooling.

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Grammar school - Reading - Berkshire - United Kingdom - Single-sex

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It is a Foundation School, and a recent OFSTED report concluded that "examination results place the school in the top five per cent nationally", "Pupils' attitudes to learning are outstanding" and "The school goes to exceptional lengths to broaden and enrich the education of all pupils". In the 2004 school league tables for England (including fee-paying schools), it came eighth for GCSE-level results (average 602.5 points), 106th for A-level results (average 409.3 points) and 170th for value-added between ages 11 and 16 (score of 1037.7 compared to a baseline of 1000). It has recently become a specialist school for the humanities, specialising in English, Geography and Classics – the first school to specialise in Classics.

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OFSTED - 2004 - Specialist school - Humanities - English - Geography - Classics

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