Present Day
Today Haileybury is a co-educational school for 11-18 year-olds, with recent girls' boarding houses, Colvin, Melvill, Allenby, Albans and, also, Hailey for day girls and many facilities. There are still seven boys' boarding houses in the school, (Edmonstone, Lawrence, Bartle Frere, Kipling, Batten, Thomason and Trevelyan). The Ayckbourn Theatre is a fully functional modern theatre. The college chapel organ was built by Klais in 1997, with two manuals and thirty stops. A recent development is the opening of a new modern languages centre and there is an modern, purpose-built (1999) design technology centre. There is a modern sports centre and a synthetic running track. Haileybury has a rackets court, built in 1908, which is unusual in having a double gallery. During World War II, it was damaged by the blast from a V-2 rocket and was not restored until 1952 due to the school being evacuated from bombing risks. The school supports a professional coach (Mike Cawdron lad), making it one of the twelve schools in England to have a rackets court and coach.
Groups originating from Haileybury support a number of charities such as The Children's Trust, Tadworth, the Home Farm Trust and the Boys' Club in Stepney once managed by Old Haileyburian Clement Attlee (who was also involved with the Haileybury Youth Trust which is now based in Uganda improving the lives of hundreds of Ugandans in a sustainable, environmentally-friendly way) and Changing Faces - a charity which supports and represents people who have disfigurements to the face, hand or body. Attlee was noted for his promotion of fellow Old Haileyburians.
The school was featured in the TV drama A Class Apart, starring Nathaniel Parker and Jessie Wallace.
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