page_title: Nottingham High School
section_title: Location
hierarchical_section_title: Nottingham High School / Premises / Location
context_page_description: Nottingham High School is an independent, fee-paying day school for boys and girls in Nottingham, England, with an Infant and Junior School and Senior School. There were 738 students in the 2019–2020 academic year, of whom 151 were in the sixth form.
context_section_description: Since 1868 the school has stood high on Waverley Mount to the north of the city centre, looking down towards its foundation site in St Mary's Church and continuance in Stoney Street. The present site has undergone a long programme of building and development.
  Main Building
  An example of Gothic Revival architecture, the original school building on the present site, built between 1866 and 1867, was designed by Thomas Simpson. It consists of a tower and three wings: West Wing, Middle Corridor and East Wing. West Wing houses classrooms for mathematics, English and geography. Housed in Middle Corridor are the learning support department, two ICT centres, two language laboratories, religious studies classrooms, two multi-purpose lecture theatres, the library and staff offices. East Wing contains the old gymnasium, the Player assembly hall and classrooms for modern languages, history and classics. The school front and other features are Grade II listed.
  Tower
  Overlooking the city centre is the school tower, used as a staff office. A school standard and the Union Flag are raised on it on special occasions such as Founder's Day and the Queen's official birthday, and as remembrance should a member of the school staff have died.
  Additions
  To the west, the Founder Hall building was built in 1963 to mark the school's 450th anniversary. The complex includes the school's swimming pool and the Founder Hall itself. It acts as a performing arts venue to supplement the Player Hall. A drama studio was added in 2013 to mark the school's 500th anniversary.
  The Simon Djanogly Science Building dates from 1984. It is situated to the south west with 13 laboratories for all three sciences. A 25-yard CCF shooting range is still present in the basement. The building was officially opened on 2 March 1984 by the Duke of Edinburgh.
  In front of the science building is the music school which was completed in 1997. This complex houses the Lady Carol Djanogly Recital Hall, the Jones Trust Music Room, a music technology studio, a resources centre, seven instrumental teaching rooms and a larger brass teaching room, a percussion studio and a classroom for Infant and Junior School pupils.
  In 1989 a sports hall was built on land to the north east of the site that was formerly occupied by fives court and a shooting range. It contains an multi-purpose exercise hall, and a fitness room which is available for older pupils.
  In the north-west corner is the Sir Harry Djanogly Art, Design and Technology Centre. The ground floor of this building was built in the mid-1990s and a first floor was added in the 2003/2004 academic year to accommodate modern facilities for the Art Department.
  A new dining hall and sixth form centre were constructed in the West Quad in 2009.
  Lovell House Building
  Waverley House School to the west of the main site was purchased in 2008. The site was refurbished and renamed the Lovell House Infant School. In 2013, this single-sex establishment was combined with the Junior School to form Nottingham High Infant and Junior School.
caption: The south side of the school, showing the war memorial
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