Ashville has praised pupils from its GCSE Class of 2026 after it achieved another “excellent” set of grades, complementing the success of its A Level high-performers.

Budding theatre and rock stars from Ashville are breaking new ground by taking a home-grown rock musical to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in the school’s history, following in the footsteps of some of Britain’s most celebrated performers.

Pupils from Ashville in Harrogate are heading to leading universities, international institutions and prestigious global organisations spanning the UK, Europe and the United States after another stand-out set of A Level results.

Ashville's headteacher has spoken of her pride in representing the North on the national stage in the education sector’s “Oscars”.

Two international soccer stars have shared a first-hand insight into their successful football journeys as they kicked off a series of talks on leadership in sport to pupils at Ashville.

Rhiannon Wilkinson, who was appointed as the eleventh and first female head at Ashville College in 2021, has been shortlisted for the title of Headteacher of the Year (Independent) in the Tes School Awards 2026.

Wimbledon’s first female Chief Executive in its 150-year history returned to her Harrogate roots to share with pupils from her former school, Ashville College, a behind-the-scenes insight into a sporting “national treasure’ that commands a global TV audience of 730 million people.

Sally Bolton OBE, who attended Ashville between 1985 and 1992, also gave an insight into her career path and how the school acted as a springboard by building confidence and self-belief, turning her from a “shy girl” to be a leader in sport, a sector that now generates more than £100 billion pounds to the UK economy each year.

Ashville pupils delighted audiences of over 1000 people across four shows, with their production of Sister Act The Musical, in the Soothill Theatre at Ashville College. Over 70 pupils, from Years 7 to 13, performed in two casts, highlighting the strength and depth of talent within the school.

Pupils continue to scale new heights through a rich and growing programme of academic and sporting trips around the globe – the most recent seeing more than 100 taking to the slopes on two skiing adventures.

Year 9 and Sixth Form pupils enjoyed making unforgettable memories, whilst developing independence, teamwork, friendships and a strong sense of community both on and off the slopes.

The ski holidays are just two highlights in a packed programme of trips that give pupils thrilling experiences across their school career, while broadening perspectives, building confidence and a discovering deeper love of learning.

Ashville ‘takes Law into its own hands’ thanks to the Success of Law A Level, a course hailed by former pupil as ‘an amazing gateway’ into the profession

ASHVILLE, named this month as one of the leading independent schools in the North of England, is bucking the national trend by continuing to offer pupils the chance to study A Level Law.

While some schools have chosen to withdraw the option completely from their curriculum, the Harrogate school has instead enjoyed success from its AQA A Level, with pupils progressing to study Law at leading UK universities. 

Top-performing school in Harrogate, as well as one of the top ten independent schools across the whole of the North of England.

ASHVILLE has crowned another year of academic, sporting and performing arts’ excellence, underpinned by the launch of unparalleled investment into its campus, with a brace of table-topping rankings in the latest Sunday Times educational league tables.

Thanks to its latest set of record-breaking exam results, it was independently

Hundreds of pupils at a co-educational Harrogate school have come together with others across the globe to celebrate International Day of the Girl.

Ashville marked the event – initiated by the United Nations – by creating a video and a special assembly recognising the power of girls, and amplifying their voices, actions and leadership in today’s world.

Ashville, a leading Harrogate school, has broken new ground by launching a reimagined pre-university Sixth Form experience – inspired and shaped with input from pupils themselves.

Six @ Ashville promises to redefine the school’s Sixth Form experience to extend pupils’ development through an unprecedented range of new and innovative courses, opportunities and freedom.

Ashville starts the term using new technology to limit pupils’ access to their smartphones in the school day.

The initiative – which sees pupils in the Senior School secure their phones in pouches from the first bell of the day to the last – marks another major step forward in Ashville’s commitment to become mobile-free.

An inspector writing for the prestigious Good Schools Guide has praised Harrogate’s Ashville as a great school with ‘strong learning and high aspirations, tempered with holistic ambitions’.

Regarded as the most independent, critical and fair examination of state and private schools, the report is celebrated for its unbiased and candid reviews – and is highly respected across the education sector and trusted by parents worldwide. 

Pupils at Ashville, Harrogate, have achieved record-breaking academic progress in their GCSE results announced today.

The Class of 2025 broke new ground in their overall performance across the year, securing results more than half a grade greater than their predicted score – a record high.

PUPILS at Ashville, Harrogate, have been praised today as the school celebrated its “best ever” A Level results for another successive year.

Results day has seen an across-the-board rise in top grades for the school, with members of the record-breaking Class of 2025 securing places at their preferred universities based across the UK, USA and beyond.

From Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick and Bristol to Northeastern University in the United States, to The Royal Northern College of Music, the next stages in Ashville pupils’ global academic journeys continue to be rich in diversity.

Under the coaching of Voise Winters, a former player of the Philadelphia 76ers in America’s famed National Basketball Association (NBA), Ashville’s junior and senior teams have achieved a 78% winning strike rate in all competitions.

The end-of-season highlight was the appearance by the school’s Year 7 and Year 8 squad in the final of the Jr. NBA League, run by England Basketball in partnership with the NBA.

Ashville is delighted to welcome Old Ashvillians, Jim Carter OBE and William Dutton, as guest speakers for the end of year speech days this week.