Good Schools Guide
“An outstandingly good, all-round school, with a healthy waiting list. Has upped the entrance requirements 'in response to huge demand' – though we are a little sad to see it. Does well, does the boys well, couldn't do better.”
Tatler Schools Guide Entry 2008
“The quiet revolution brought about by the impressive Barnaby Lenon has taken this iconic school from 0 to 60 in a jet-propelled whoosh. As one parent put it: “Harrow had lost its way, but the head understands the product and he also understands the customers.” And what his customers want is an unashamedly all-boarding, all-boys school. Though exam results have shot up the league tables, Harrow still manages with equal finesse to cater to the slightly struggling, the above-average and the outstandingly clever.
Surrounded by a sea of north London suburbia, Harrow is a picture-postcard on a leafy hilltop, with boys in straw boaters scurrying up and down its historic high street in the wake of begowned masters. The education is traditional but with a thoroughly modern slant, and there’s nothing boys can’t try or do – from polo to Portuguese. A very strong house system is in place. The school is truly cosmopolitan and reasonably socially comprehensive with a sizeable sprinkling of first-time buyers fitting in happily alongside the scions of the aristocracy and landed gentry.”