Ampleforth College
Ampleforth College
Ampleforth College
Ampleforth College
Ampleforth College York, North Yorkshire Visit
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Ampleforth College
York
402 pupils, ages 11-18
Mixed
Day and Boarding

Ampleforth College

It’s a new dawn for this high-profile public school in North Yorkshire. In the words of head Peter Roberts, it’s time to move on from ‘being good’, something Ampleforth College has tirelessly worked on to restore its reputation, to ‘doing good’. We were struck by how happy and confident the pupils are and the genuinely warm and friendly environment. The evergreen Benedictine ethos of serving each other, tolerating differences and living harmoniously as a community is alive and well, and the school’s motto, ‘A Compass for Life’, couldn&r...
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girls sitting together in class working
Choir singers in white cassocks in chapel
Rugby at Ampleforth
Aerial view of Ampleforth College
Boys in aprons preparing food in a cookery class
Pupils walking all dressed in olive green and brown and welly boots carrying black gun sleeves
1st X1 cricket at Ampleforth
Girls in white lab coats and safety goggles in a chemistry lesson

School Updates

  • Da Vinci Decathlon Comes to Ampleforth College

    Ampleforth College welcomed more than 100 pupils from across the length and breadth of the UK to take part in a multi-disciplinary academic competition inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, one of the world’s greatest thinkers and polymaths.
    Da Vinci Decathlon Comes to Ampleforth College
  • See Ampleforth in our Senior Boarding Schools Guide

    See Ampleforth in our Senior Boarding Schools Guide

Essentials

Address
Ampleforth, York, North Yorkshire YO62 4ER

Contact
admissions@ampleforth.org.uk
01439 766000

Website
ampleforthcollege.org.uk/

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Open Morning 9.30am to 1.30pm
01 February 2025


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