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Roundhay School (also known as Roundhay School Technology and Language College) is a specialist Technology College and Language College in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

Admissions
It has about 1,520 pupils and there are about 287 pupils in the sixth form. The current headmaster is Mr. Neil Clephan. The school grounds are based across 22 acre, and are directly opposite Roundhay Park near the Roundhay Hall (Spire Leeds) BUPA hospital.

Early history
Roundhay School was established in 1903 as an all boys grammar school.

During World War I and World War II many of the Roundhay pupils above the age of 16 served with the Yorkshire Regiment.

In 1972, along with many other grammar schools in the country, Roundhay Grammar School for Boys on Old Park Road and Roundhay High School for Girls on Jackson Avenue merged to form a mixed comprehensive secondary school under the Circular 10/70 introduced by Margaret Thatcher. Roundhay, like all other high schools in the city, changed from an 11–18 to a 13–18 school with the creation of the tier of Middle Schools - which were themselves abolished later when Roundhay became an 11–18 school again.

Construction work
In the period 2002–04 much of the old school was torn down and rebuilt under a £14 million Private Finance Initiative. The frontage of the building was left largely untouched, though the central section was replaced in favour of an upper-floor staff room that looks over the fields at the front of the school.

Specialist status
It is a Technology and Language College, enabling new Year 7 pupils to learn two languages (from a choice of over seventy). Also it has interactive whiteboards (SmartBoards) in every classroom.

Extra-curricular
Roundhay School runs various extracurricular activities for pupils to engage in during the lunch period and after school. Sport is an important part of extracurricular life at Roundhay, and the school enjoys large playing fields and indoor sports halls to facilitate this. Main sports include football, rugby union, netball, cricket and hockey. The hockey in particular had been a great success with many students going on to play for successful teams after education The school also partakes in tennis, athletics or swimming competition. There is also trampolining class and a well used climbing wall.

All pupils at Roundhay School are offered free instrumental lessons. The school also runs a popular 'Battle of the Bands' competition on an annual basis, supported by several of the School's resident bands.

Drama is another popular activity. Each year there is a school production in which pupils of any age can take part. These productions are one of Roundhay's pillars of extracurricular achievement. In 2006 the Roundhay pupils did a successful production of Sister Act, this year a whole week of Multi Cultural activities replaced the school production, Multi Cultural week, spearheaded by the music department, involved a wider range of staff and students than the traditional production.

School trips
Roundhay School runs a number of trips abroad on annual and 2 year cycles. These include art trips to New York, Germany, and Barcelona, and also languages trips to Spain, Germany and France annually. The school also runs a popular skiing trip to Canada with a new trip for 2010 to Austria. History trips take place every year to Skipton Castle, the Imperial War Museum and World War I battlefields. There was also an art trip to China in April 2009. This year the Geography department went to Iceland on an amazing trip taking in the thermal springs as well as the volcanoes.

Success
Roundhay School receives consistently successful Ofsted reports, and external examination results are above the national average. In 2007, the school got the best A level results of all the state schools in the city of Leeds (also doing better than the independent boys school Leeds Grammar), and the second best in the district after the St. Mary's School, Menston. The best schools in Leeds are in the north of the city, close to the outer ring road. At GCSE, it performs less highly, being eighth in the LEA, four places higher than the neighbouring Allerton High School.


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! heading !! School results !! National results
 * + Standards in GCSE/GNVQ examinations at the end of Year 11 in 2003
 * Percentage of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-C grades || 59.0 || 52.0
 * Percentage of pupils gaining 5 or more A*-G grades || 92.0 || 91.0
 * Percentage of pupils gaining 1 or more A*-G grades || 96.0 || 96.0
 * Average point score per pupil (best eightsubjects) || 37.5 || 34.7
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 * Percentage of pupils gaining 1 or more A*-G grades || 96.0 || 96.0
 * Average point score per pupil (best eightsubjects) || 37.5 || 34.7
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Roundhay Grammar School for Boys

 * Arthur Louis Aaron VC DFM, English recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Mike Baxter, European & Commonwealth Games athlete
 * John Blackwell CBE, Ambassador to Costa Rica from 1972-4
 * Sir Geoffrey Bowman CB, First Parliamentary Counsel from 2002-6
 * Leonard Boyle CBE, Director and General Manager from 1956-78 of the Principality Building Society
 * John Michael Briggs prolific session singer on television, radio and the stage — and the voice of the puppet piglet Perky
 * Arthur Brown, psychedelic singer of the pop hit Fire
 * Professor Noel Carr, expert on Cyanobacteria
 * Tony Cunnane, pilot and author
 * Squadron Leader Douglas Greaves DFC
 * Linal Haft actor
 * George Harrison, Chief Executive from 1976-86 of Manchester City Council
 * Maj-Gen Donald Isles CB OBE, Commanding Officer from 1965-7 of United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
 * Edouard Lapaglie, formerly of Radio Leeds
 * Prof Andrew Lees, Francis and Renee Hock Professor of Neurology since 1998 at the Institute of Neurology at UCL, and President from 2005-6 of the Movement Disorder Society
 * Edward Lyons, former Labour MP from 1966-74 for Bradford East and Bradford West from 1974-83
 * John McWilliam OBE, Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 1992-9 of the University of Greenwich
 * Adrian Metcalfe OBE, Silver medallist in the 1964 Tokyo 4x400m relay, and ITV sports commentator from 1966-87
 * Harry Patterson, the real name of author Jack Higgins who wrote The Eagle Has Landed
 * Professor Geoff Raisman, "The Miracle Worker", and Director of the Spinal Repair Unit at the Institute of Neurology at UCL
 * Geoffrey Richmond, Bradford City Football Club
 * Michael Roll, pianist
 * Geoffrey Rowett, group Chief Executive of Charterhouse Group from 1976-82, Managing Director from 1965-72 of The Sunday Times, and President from 1978-9 of ICMA
 * Prof Philip Saffman, Theodore von Kármán Professor of Applied Mathematics and Aeronautics from 1995-2008 at the California Institute of Technology
 * Michael Salmon, Vice-Chancellor from 1992-5 of Anglia Polytechnic University (now called Anglia Ruskin University)
 * Jack Shepherd, actor
 * Brigadier Dennis Shuttleworth OBE, England Rugby Union, scrum half 1951-1953
 * Eric Silver, former Foreign Correspondent of The Guardian
 * Prof Roy Spector, Professor of Applied Pharmacology from 1972-89 at Guy’s Hospital Medical School
 * Dave Spowage, entrepreneur and inventor of the notron
 * Prof Irving Taylor, Professor of Surgery since 1993 at University College London
 * John Thompson CBE, Editor of The Sunday Telegraph from 1976-86
 * Jon Trickett, Labour MP since 1996 for Hemsworth
 * Prof Norman Williams, Professor of Surgery since 1986 at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, and President since 2009 of the Society of Academic and Research Surgery
 * Prof Paul Woodrow, Professor of Fine Art at the University of Calgary, Canada, jazz musician
 * Arnold Ziff, businessman and philanthropist

Roundhay High School for Girls

 * Joyce Gould, Baroness Gould of Potternewton

The Roundhay School

 * Nick Gibb, Conservative MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton
 * Rory Girvan, actor
 * Richard Quest, CNN International presenter
 * Elizabeth Truss, Conservative MP since 2010 for South West Norfolk