Bentley Wood High School

Bentley Wood High School
Aerial view of Bentley Wood
Address
Clamp Hill Stanmore , Harrow , HA7 3JW England
Coordinates	51°37′05″N 0°19′56″W / 51.61796°N 0.33225°W / 51.61796; -0.33225
Information
Type	Academy
Department for Education URN	137178 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Naseema Akbar
Gender	Girls
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1021
Houses	4
Website	www.bentleywood.harrow.sch.uk

Bentley Wood High School is an all-girls secondary academy school in Stanmore, Harrow, England.

BWHS was originally called Heriots Wood Grammar School.

Bentley Wood High School is a multi-cultural girls' comprehensive school which receives students from a wide range of primary schools. The majority of students transfer from Harrow primary schools but students are also admitted from out of borough.^[1]

Bentley Wood High School specialises in maths, science and computing. It has been recognised for its 2015 performance by the Schools, Students and Teachers network (SSAT).^[2] The school was declared outstanding by Ofsted,^[3] and has been in the top 1% of schools nationally for three years. It was recognised as the seventh highest-performing school in the country in 2015 for student progress. ^[4]

The sixth form centre is part of the Harrow Sixth Form Collegiate.

The academy complies with the requirements of the Funding Agreement and the School Admissions Code, and recognises that its 'relevant area' is the London Borough of Harrow.

This article's list of alumni may not follow Wik.ipedia.Pro's verifiability policy. Please improve this article by removing names that do not have independent reliable sources showing they merit inclusion in this article AND are alumni, or by incorporating the relevant publications into the body of the article through appropriate citations. (September 2019)

• Camilla Beeput, actress
• Shami Chakrabarti, politician, barrister, and human rights activist
• Ruby McGregor-Smith, business executive and politician
• Abi Oyepitan, 100m sprinter^[5]
• Carla Marie Williams, songwriter

It is just north of the A410, in the parish of All Saints, Harrow Weald, just south of Bentley Wood Nature Reserve. It can be reached via Masefield Avenue.

• List of schools in Harrow

• Official website
• Edubase^{[permanent dead link]}
• Campbell, Sarah (13 March 2009). "UK | Education | Putting brakes on engineering shortage". BBC News. Retrieved 1 November 2013.