- An archway at the main entrance is among the last traces of the 12th-century Repton Priory to remain on the site where the school was founded in 1557.
- Recent developments include the award-winning 400 Hall – a theatre built to mark Repton’s 400th anniversary and refurbished in 2011 – and a £6 million sports centre. The latter was opened by Adam Peaty, the Olympic swimmer and world-record holder who trained at the school as a teenager.
- Repton has day and boarding places for boys and girls aged 13-18, and about 70 per cent of pupils are boarders. Its prep school, formerly known as Foremarke Hall, is on a 55-acre site close by.
- In recent years Repton has opened international schools in the United Arab Emirates, China and Egypt.
- The Repton Foundation was established to offer bursary places to pupils who “have the talent but not the financial means to benefit from a Repton education”.
- The 1920s Olympic sprinter Harold Abrahams, the author Roald Dahl and the Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm presenter Jeremy Clarkson are former pupils.
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