Yarm School

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Looking for advice, due to possible work relocation, we might need to move from SE to NE. What are the experiences of Yarm School (Year 8 and 6 - at the moment), and both are excelling in school and sports.

Cousin had his two there, both did very well academically and they are both very active too.

You probably won't get many replies as MN heavily London + SE centric.
Whereabouts in NE and which sports?

Thank you...! Mainly rugby and cricket... and my oldest is leaning towards classics

We send DD to Barney school and they have several notable England Rugby + Cricket alumni. Strong links with Newcastle Falcons and a % seem to get signed each year.
Academics not as strong as Yarm but she loves it. They offer Classics + Latin through to 6th form.

Yarm is academically selective and drives hard. Barney isn't, has a strong sporting reputation and more of an all-round education.

Excellent Classics results at Barney.

Yep very strong department

Thank you for the information - very very helpful!!

Yarm was in top 200 indy schools a couple of years ago (around 195 ish if I remember correctly) but it really depends what you want and where you will be living.
Some decent indy schools around York + Newcastle (RGS etc) too. NE is a big area.
I would choose a location and then go and visit the schools, each one is very different.

Just for info I have a relative who lives in Darlington and has 1 dc at Barney and 1 dc at Yarm, they both travel by school bus, I think this is the only place you can live and access both schools. Apart from academics the big difference is much longer school day and Saturday school at Barney.

Thank you - very helpful!

Have a look at Red House, similar area to Yarm but much more laid back. I had friends attending one and I attended the other. Yarm had much more of a drug issue (could be due to it having a college attached). RH was less sporty though

thank you all for your feedback! they re very helpful!!

repatexpat Good morning, I know its been a while but which school did you end going with? We might be relocating to a similar area and are also looking at Yarm. Thanks