"place in May 1933, a year after Fisher had left Repton; the headmaster was in fact J. T. Christie, Fisher's successor.) Dahl said the incident caused him to ""have doubts about religion and even about God"". He was never seen as a particularly talented writer in his school years, with one of his English teachers writing in his school report ""I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended."" Dahl was exceptionally tall, reaching in adult life. He played sports including cricket, football and golf, and was made captain of the"
"become celebrities, and leaders in various industries including music, fashion, business, sports, and entertainment. Some of the most notable New York City public school alumni include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Alicia Keys, Stanley Kubrick, Al Pacino, Lloyd Blankfein, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Jay-Z. Unsurprisingly, art focused schools, including High School of Art and Design and Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School have tended to produce notable artists, actors, and fashion over the past century, while STEM focused schools, including Stuyvesant High School and Bronx High School of Science boast Nobel Prize winners and scientists among their notable alumni. Many now famous alumni"
"Andreas Whittam Smith (chairman of the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) and founder of ""The Independent"" newspaper); Andrew Irvine, and Philip Toosey, hero at the Bridge on the River Kwai; and Tony Hall, Director-General of the BBC. Birkenhead High School Academy, formerly Birkenhead Girls High School, is an all-ability state funded girls' Academy. It was founded in 1885 and caters for girls aged 3–19. Its sponsor was the Girls' Day School Trust, but is now publicly funded. Its alumnae include the actress Patricia Routledge. Birkenhead Girls High School decided to become a state-funded Academy school in 2009, increasing the"
"and Wall Street, later moving to its present location on Girard Avenue), Muirlands Middle School, Torrey Pines Elementary, and Bird Rock Elementary, as well as Preuss School, a public charter school. The community's prep schools are The Bishop's School, which was the first private school opened in 1909, The Children's School, Delphi Academy, Stella Maris Academy, The Gillispie School, and the Evans School. La Jolla Country Day School is located in the nearby community of University City. Christian: Jewish: La Jolla (under the fictionalized name ""Esmerelda"") is the setting for Raymond Chandler's final Philip Marlowe novel, ""Playback"", published in 1958."
"Chester City). Notable alumni of the former City of Oxford High School for Boys include Lawrence of Arabia, Ronnie Barker, Tony Juniper and Jack Gibbons. Notable alumni of the former Southfield Grammar School include actor Patrick Mower. Oxford Spires Academy Oxford Spires Academy is a state funded secondary school for children aged 11–18 in Glanville Road, East Oxford, England formerly known as Oxford Community School and The Oxford School. It is sponsored by the CfBT Education Trust. The school has a co-educational student body of 1,087, and has specialist Business and Enterprise College status. The student body is drawn from"
"the school's more famous alumni are Andrew Cuomo, current New York State Governor and former New York State Attorney General, actor David Caruso, featured on the series """", and professional wrestler Colin Cassady. The school is named in honor of Archbishop Thomas Molloy. It has about 1,550 students. Also located in Briarwood is Robert A. Van Wyck M.S. 217Q, a middle school of 1,300 students in grades 6–8. The school was established in 1955 and was named after the first mayor of the Greater City of New York, Robert A. Van Wyck, a Tammany Hall lawyer. The neighborhood is served"
"also interacted with one another while attending public school together. One particular vocational high school, George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School, is widely known in Brooklyn to have helped produce four rap legends. In the 1990s, Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, DMX, and The Notorious B.I.G. all attended the same school. Similarly, at DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx, famed novelist James Baldwin and photographer Richard Avedon both contributed to their school's literary magazine, ""The Magpie,"" in the 1930s. Many school buildings are architecturally noteworthy, in part due to the efforts of C. B. J. Snyder. Since 1988 construction"
"Chris Blackwell. In sports, the school produced the first two Wimbledon champions (Spencer Gore and Frank Hadow) as well as FA Cup founder C.W. Alcock and current England rugby international players Billy Vunipola and Maro Itoje. Alumni in the arts and media industry include actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Cary Elwes, singer James Blunt and horse racing pundit John McCririck. Margaret Thatcher sent her son, Mark, to Harrow. Fictional characters who have attented Harrow include Brett Sinclair of The Persuaders!, and Mr. Pocket from Charles Dickens's book, Great Expectations. Harrow School Harrow School is an independent boarding school for boys in"
"Radcliffe from Harry Potter movies, Skandar Keynes, of ""The Chronicles of Narnia"" film series, and Harry Michell of ""Tom Brown's Schooldays"" and ""Feather Boy"". Jack Crawford is a British born American football player who was drafted with the 158th overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders. Jonathan Keates, a prize-winning writer, was an English master at the school. Sheila Gallagher MBE was honoured for her service as a lollipop lady at the crossing to the school on Queen Victoria Street, in 2002.Horace Brearley, father of Cricketer Mike Brearley, was also a master at the school. Old"
"school, Brittany Woods Middle School, and four elementary schools: Flynn Park, Barbara C. Jordan, Pershing and Jackson Park. It is also home to two Catholic grade schools, Our Lady of Lourdes and Christ the King. University City Public Library serves the community. University City is home to the COCA, a center for contemporary arts that has a nationally recognized pre-professional dance training program. Alumni have danced for Trisha Brown, Cecil Slaughter, Houston Ballet, Ballet Hispanico New York, Mark Morris, Alvin Ailey, the national tours of Wicked and Cinderella, and Tarzan on Broadway. University City has a public library at 6701"
"on the school's board of governors. Other OGs are listed in List of people educated at Gordonstoun. In addition to the royal family other notable alumni include: Gordonstoun also has a notable fictional alumna: the heroine of ""Tomb Raider"", Lara Croft, was supposed to have attended the school in sixth year; she has also been used to advertise it. In 2002, the school barred two former pupils who had published an article about the headmaster's daughter. This was after the Headmaster, Mark Pyper, had banned his daughter, a pupil there, from all social activities in the grounds for two weeks"
"Levy Special Education Center, which included a vocational training center for the developmentally disabled. Several figures of national prominence in their field are alumni of the Wichita Public Schools, including former U.S. Agriculture Secretary and Kansas 4th District Congressman Dan Glickman (later Director of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Motion Picture Association of America president), actress Kirstie Alley and actor Don Johnson. Various Olympic medalists began their athletic careers in the Wichita Public Schools, including basketball star Lynette Woodard, track star Jim Ryun, and swimmer Jeff Farrell. Among those who publicly credit their Wichita public school education for some"
"Smith, Bill Nye, John Updike and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Midland is the home to three local public high schools: Midland High School, Robert E. Lee High School and Early College High School (ECHS) at Midland College, all three of which are part of the Midland Independent School District. Another school district is located just outside of Midland, Greenwood Independent School District, containing Greenwood High and a middle and elementary school. ECHS welcomed its first freshman class on August 24, 2009. The goal for ECHS is to award students their associate degrees from Midland College by the time they receive their"
"29 January 1980. Marist College Emerald, St Patrick's, St Brigid's and Emerald Christian College (ECC) are private schools. The only public high school in Emerald is Emerald State High School. Capricornia School of Distance Education shares a campus with Denison State School. The small community of Gindie exists approximately south of Emerald on the Gregory Highway. It is also home to a primary school established in 1897, Gindie State School. The school closed in 1949 and subsequently reopened. Central Queensland University has a campus in Emerald. Central Highlands Regional Council operates Emerald Library at 44 Borilla Street, Emerald. The Central"
"on PBS, Russell Baker are also alumni. Businessmen, who have graduated from the school, include David M. Rubenstein, co-founder of The Carlyle Group, and David T. Abercrombie, namesake and co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch. John B. Van Meter co-founded Goucher College. In entertainment, Ciera Nicole Butts, class of 2008, is a former Miss District of Columbia USA and winner of Oxygen's reality competition series ""Last Squad Standing"". Baltimore City College The Baltimore City College, known colloquially as City, City College, B.C.C. and nicknamed """"The Castle on the Hill"""" is a public magnet high school in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established"
"moved at a very young age to Bishopbriggs and spent their childhood here. The voice over artist and actor Lewis MacLeod lived in south Bishopbriggs and attended Auchinairn Primary. Oscar-winning director and actor Peter Capaldi attended St Matthew's Primary school. John Rooney, the writer and creator of the comedy series, ""High Times"", is a current resident. Derek Boyle and Raymond Friel, screenwriters of the films Calcium kid and Botched, both attended Turnbull High. Sports people include Alastair Kellock, Scotland cap, lock and captain of Rugby Union side Glasgow Warriors in the Celtic League who attended Bishopbriggs High School. Birmingham City"
"religion or compulsory anything else, no more Latin, no more Greek; no competition; no jingoism.” With time more academic rigour was imposed, but it remained progressive and had mixed success educating the children, sometimes the more wayward ones, of the fee-paying parents. A noted alumnus was Lord Young, a founder of ""Which?"" and the Open University. Lucian Freud attended the school for two years and his brother Clement Freud was also a pupil there. Other noted alumni include Oliver Postgate, Martin Bernal, Max Fordham, Ivan Moffat, Eva Ibbotson, Matthew Huxley, Richard Leacock, Lionel Grigson, 1970s pop music act Marshall Hain,"
"Trophy winner Pete Dawkins, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, former Massachusetts governor and 2012 Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his wife Ann Romney (née Davies), columnist Michael Kinsley, Sun Microsystems founder Scott McNealy, former professional soccer player Alexi Lalas, Big Bang Theory Producer Bill Prady, actress and Tony award winner Renée Elise Goldsberry and actress Selma Blair. Cranbrook Schools Cranbrook Schools is a private, PK–12 preparatory school located on a campus in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The schools comprise a co-educational elementary school, a middle school with separate schools for boys and girls, and a co-educational high school with boarding facilities."
"view this indication of Newton's education. A replica of the signature is on display in Grantham Museum. The novelist and eccentric Frederick Rolfe ('Baron Corvo') was briefly a teacher at the school. In 1988, a comprehensive illustrated history of the School was published by former King's School mathematics teacher, S J Branson: ""The King's School Grantham – 660 years of a Grammar School"". The King's School has just over 1000 boys as pupils, and has been a selective state grammar school since the implementation of the 1944 Education Act. King's and another Grantham grammar school, Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School,"
"Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni is a bilingual community comprehensive school for pupils aged 11 to 18 years old located in Llangefni, Anglesey. Pupils come from the town of Llangefni and the surrounding villages and rural areas. The school opened around 1953 and currently has 702 students on roll. There is a leisure centre neighbouring the school called Plas Arthur. Notable alumni include Oscar-winning actor Hugh Griffith and noted British novelist Gabriel Fielding, who both attended the school when it was still Llangefni County School, Hollywood actress and Oscar nominee Naomi Watts, opera tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones, and TV"
"McKellen, Eleanor Bron, Miriam Margolyes, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sir Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie, Simon Russell Beale, Tilda Swinton, Thandie Newton, Georgie Henley, Rachel Weisz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Tom Hiddleston, Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Eddie Redmayne, Dan Stevens, Jamie Bamber, Lily Cole, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins all studied at the university, as did recently acclaimed directors such as Mike Newell, Sam Mendes, Stephen Frears, Paul Greengrass, Chris Weitz and John Madden. Athletes who are university graduates include more than 123"
"was attended by Everton footballer Colin Harvey, United States Eagles rugby player,Michael Caulder, who played in the first Rugby World Cup in 1987, and actor Paul McGann. Broughton Hall High School former pupils include singer Natasha Hamilton of Atomic Kitten, and actress Jennifer Ellison. Ellison later moved to St. Edward's College for sixth form. Other schools in the area include Holly Lodge Girls' College, St. Marys Primary School, St. Paul's Junior School, Blackmoor Park Junior School and Emmaus Primary School. Well known residents of West Derby have been; William Lassell (he built an observatory at his house ""Starfield"" in West"
"(Cornell 1944), former Chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co. Michael D. Eisner (Denison 1964), and Nobel Prize recipients Charles Dawes (Marietta 1884), Christian B. Anfinsen (Swarthmore 1937), and Edward C. Prescott (Swarthmore 1962). Notable Canadian DUs include Prime Minister and Nobel Prize recipient Lester B. Pearson (Toronto 1919), actor Alan Thicke (Western Ontario 1967), Alberta premier E. Peter Lougheed (Alberta 1959), Ontario premier John P. Robarts (Western Ontario 1939), and Minister of Foreign Affairs David Emerson (Alberta 1964). The current President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (Kansas 1973), was initiated into Delta Upsilon as an undergraduate student at"
"to a K-8 school. High school students attend William A. Hough High School, also in Cornelius. Davidson is home to Davidson College, a highly selective liberal arts college located in the heart of town on Main Street. Davidson College has been ranked the third most rigorous school in the United States, the top school in the South, is consistently ranked in the top ten best liberal arts colleges in the country, and has graduated 23 Rhodes scholars. Some notable attendees of the college are Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, George Osborne, former British Chancellor of the"
"Summer of 2014, with the first intake in September 2016. The school takes in pupils from Manchester and surrounding areas. The school's motto is 'Faith in the City, Value in People, Excellence in Education.' The school holds Technology College status and has been designated a Leading Edge School. Notable alumni include Tina O'Brien, former ""Coronation Street"" actress; Danny Welbeck, Arsenal FC footballer; actress Wunmi Mosaku; singer Misha B; and journalist and author Keir Thomas. Trinity Church of England High School Trinity C.E. High School is an academy school located in Hulme, Manchester, North West. The headteacher is Julian Nicholls. The"
"history and roughly four points higher than the state and national averages. The high school has many notable alumni, including former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, author Veronica Roth, fashion designer Cynthia Rowley, and former Seattle Mariners catcher Dan Wilson. The school itself is featured in the title of the music album ""Fast Times at Barrington High"" from The Academy Is... Barrington also features a Catholic school for kindergarten through eighth grade, St. Anne School, which the U.S. Department of Education recognized as a Blue Ribbon School in 2006. As of the census of 2000, there were 10,168 people,"
"grades five through eight; and Monson High School for grades nine through twelve. As of the 2017-2018 school year, 929 students collectively are enrolled in the Monson Public Schools. The town of Monson was formerly the site of Monson Academy, a private school that was founded in 1804 and opened in 1806. In 1847, the academy became the first American school to enroll Chinese students. Among its graduates were abolitionist and suffragist Lucy Stone, and two United States Supreme Court justices: William Strong and Henry Billings Brown. Notable faculty members included US Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, and Louise Torrey"
"Fritz Lang, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder, Rod Serling, Roman Polanski, Mel Brooks, Lucille Ball, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, William Goldman, Robert Towne, and Neil Simon. Sherwood Oaks College Sherwood Oaks College is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization. It was formed in 1971 as Sherwood Oaks Experimental College by Gary Shusett, brother of ""Alien"" film franchise co-creator Ronald Shusett. His former students include Sylvester Stallone, James Cameron, Matt Groening, and Todd Durham who went on to create six movie and television franchises that have each generated over $1 billion in revenues. The mission of the school is to provide"
"winner, coached swimming at Loyola and attended classes at the school before leaving Baltimore to live in Fullerton, California. Brennan Morris, a member of the US National Team, is also a record-setting member of the swim team. Loyola has approximately 70,000 living alumni worldwide. Notable Loyola alumni include: Mark Bowden, 1999 National Book Award finalist for Black Hawk Down; Tom Clancy, best selling author of the Jack Ryan series of novels; Michael D. Griffin, former Administrator (highest-ranked official) of NASA; Harry Markopolos, financial investigator who sounded the alarm about the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme; Jim McKay, former twelve time Emmy-Award-winning"
"of the school include Hall of Fame umpire Billy Evans, comedic actor Joe Flynn, major league baseball player and manager Jimmy McAleer, 19th-century Ohio lawmaker William R. Stewart; and the celebrated TV personality and Trump White House official, Omarosa Manigault Newman. and Rayen High School The Rayen School (also known as Rayen High School and colloquially as simply Rayen) was a public high school in Youngstown, Ohio, United States. At the time it was closed in 2007, it was the oldest of the three high schools in the city. The high school's most recent physical plant opened in 1923, when"
"design oriented businesses having located there in recent years. West Ashley is the area where Darius Rucker, lead singer of the band Hootie and the Blowfish grew up. He graduated from Middleton High School. Stephen Colbert host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS is also a graduate of Porter-Gaud School located in West Ashley. The community formerly served by two public high schools is now served by one, West Ashley High School with 2017 students and 135 full-time teachers. West Ashley High School was created by the merging of Middleton and St. Andrews High School. There are"
"with a transfer to Utqiagvik (then called Barrow) to guard Emil Blonsky's cryo-cell. Stephen Fry visited the town and its people during the last segment of his documentary ""Stephen Fry in America"". In 2015, the NFL Network began an 8-part documentary series focusing on the Barrow High School Whalers football team. On August 19, 2006, the Whalers of Barrow High School played the first official football game in the Arctic against Delta Junction High School. Barrow High School recorded its first win two weeks later; the coaches and players celebrated the historic win by jumping into the Arctic Ocean, just"
"created seven other ""Frederick Douglass Academies"" around the city: Frederick Douglass Academy Frederick Douglass Academy (also known as FDA), is a co-educational public school for grades 6-12 located in West Harlem, New York City. The school offers an SAT prep course program and a variety of Advance Placement (AP) college courses that you can apply for starting in 10th grade. It is also one of the first high schools in Harlem to make wearing a uniform in a public school mandatory (compulsory) but not enforced. Frederick Douglass Academy was created in 1991 by Dr. Lorraine Monroe (a former Deputy Chancellor"