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Bohunt School is a
coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...
secondary school and
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located in the rural village of
Liphook Liphook is a large village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 4.1 miles (6.6 km) west of Haslemere, bypassed by the A3 road, and lies on the Hampshire/West Sussex/Surrey borders. It is in the civil parish of Bramsh ...
,
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, England. The school was opened in 1978.


History

In 2009 the
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reported that Bohunt students had achieved higher than the national average at
GCSEs The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a particular subject, taken in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. State schools in Scotland use the Scottish Qualifications Certificate instead. Private sc ...
in four years. and had ranked mid-table in Hampshire on the proportion of pupils achieving the Level 2 threshold . Bohunt was designated a
Language College Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the specialist schools programme (SSP) in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages. Schools that succes ...
, which means that it specialises in modern foreign languages and all pupils take at least one GCSE. Bohunt offers
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,
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, French,
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and
Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
. In 2005 Bohunt was credited with an
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. Previously a foundation school administered by
Hampshire County Council Hampshire County Council (HCC) is an English council that governs eleven of the thirteen districts geographically located within the ceremonial county of Hampshire. As one of twenty-four county councils in England, it acts as the upper tier of ...
, in April 2011 Bohunt School converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by the Bohunt Education Trust. In 2014 Bohunt School was awarded TES Overall School and Secondary School of the Year at the TES Awards.


Catchment

Bohunt's main intake comes mostly from four schools known as the 4-16 Partnership. These are Liss Junior School, Liphook Church of England (controlled) Junior School, Greatham Primary School and Grayshott Primary School. Bohunt also draws from other primaries in
Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...
, Surrey, and Sussex.


Houses

The pupils are split up into a house system, consisting of six houses, each taking the name of an important person. These are: *Attenborough House after David Attenborough *Curie House after
Marie Curie Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first ...
*Hawking House after Stephen Hawking *Nightingale House after
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*Parks House after
Rosa Parks Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "th ...
*Turing House after
Alan Turing Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical co ...


Notable alumni

* Olivia Breen -
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athlete * Steve Brine, Conservative Party politician,
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for Winchester


See also

* Bohunt Chinese School


References


External links

* {{authority control Academies in Hampshire Educational institutions established in 1978 Secondary schools in Hampshire 1978 establishments in England