Charters School

Charters School is a very heavily over-subscribed 11-18 Comprehensive Academy School with 1700 students on roll (including 390 in the Sixth Form) located in Sunningdale, Ascot, Berkshire.  It is a dynamic, high-achieving secondary school where students are polite, motivated to succeed and enjoy their education.   The school provides a complete range of opportunities for students to achieve well academically and for successful personal development within a caring and supportive environment.  

Values and vision, the values of Charters School are defined as ‘unity, respect, excellence’.  

With unity, the school community works together in common pursuit of the school's aims.

With respect, every member of the school community recognises and values each others' individual qualities and characteristics.

For excellence, every member of the school community tries to achieve their personal best in all that is undertaken and feels a collective, as well as a personal, sense of pride in these achievements.

The School has three Houses; Bulldogs, Panthers and Eagles. These Houses provide students with a host of opportunities to contribute to and get involved with, from events and competitions to Sports Day, the House system promotes our school motto of Unity Respect Excellence and strengthens the bond between students and staff who share the same House.

The school has celebrated its 65th anniversary, having been opened on the 23 April 1958, which is also St. George’s Day and Shakespeare’s birthday.  The red cross of the school badge comes from the cross of St. George, the dagger symbolises Shakespeare and the stag is the symbol of Berkshire.

John Fletcher, Headteacher