Regent House School


Regent House School is a co-ed controlled grammar school situated in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland. It comprises two parts: the preparatory department, known as "the Prep" and the main school itself. It has over 1550 pupils from ages 4 to 18.
The school is divided into 4 houses: Castlereagh, Strangford, Scrabo and Clandeboye

Inspections

The school was inspected in 2015 and judged Satisfactory. In 2019 another inspection was carried out, but could not reach a judgement because of industrial action being taken by staff.

Music

In 2017 the school's choir won BBC Radio Ulster School Choir of the Year.

Sport

Regent has won the Ulster Schools Cup and Medallion Shield.
Regent House won the Schools' Cup Final in 1994 where they defeated Wallace HS 8–3 in what has proved to be their only outright victory. Two years later, Regent shared the Schools Cup with Methodist College following a 9–9 draw.
The cricket team won the McCullough Cup.

Air Training Corps

Regent has an Air Cadet squadron, 2241 sqn, a school squadron. The squadron was created out of an army cadet unit in 1951 by Flt Lt Duff, a teacher and the squadron's first Commanding Officer who had been a pilot during WW2 flying B-25 Mitchell bombers.
There are a number of opportunities on offer from the squadron including Gliding/flying training. The Squadron is well located as Newtownards Airfield is nearby; this was the home of 664 VGS flying Grob 109 Vigilant T.1 motorised gliders until 2016.
2241 are winners of the NI Wing SRAFONI Trophy for best overall ATC Sqn in Northern Ireland 2011–12.
The 2013 shooting competition for both the team award and individual award was won by the 2241 team of four.

Notable former pupils