01 / BASECAMP
Foundations, taught properly
Reading, numeracy, argument and the ability to sit still with a hard problem for longer than feels comfortable. No shortcuts, no streaming, no telling a fourteen-year-old what they are not.
Est. 2017 Nine years above the treeline
We've peaked, and the view is good.
Culmen attigimus et prospectus est bonus
Peak View opened thirty years after the school down the valley and has spent every one of them being told it is the new one. We are. That is the point. The ram on our seal holds the key, and the key fits every door on this mountain.
2017
Founded
9:1
Student to staff
1,420m
Elevation at the main gate
0
Fixtures lost to Union High
Learning
Three altitudes of study.
We do not run departments. We run altitudes - basecamp, ridge and summit - and a pupil moves between them by demonstrating they can, not by turning another year older.
02 / RIDGE
Where the specialism starts
Environmental science, structural design, data, languages and the performing arts. The compass rose on our seal points at all four faculties, which was either careful design or a very lucky accident.
03 / SUMMIT
Independent work, defended in public
Every leaver ships something real and stands in front of the school to defend it. It is the single hardest thing we ask, and the only part of the programme no pupil has ever asked us to drop.
Campus
Built into the slope, not on top of it.
Glasshouse
The Observation Deck
Glass on three sides and the valley on all of them. Nobody has ever needed to be told to be quiet in here.
Field
The Ridge Labs
Weather station, water sampling and a soil archive going back to the year the school opened. The data is public.
Commons
The Long Table
One room, one very long table, everybody eats at the same time. It is the best decision this school has ever made.
"They have had thirty extra years and they still have not beaten us. At some point that stops being a young school's luck and starts being the result."
Newsroom
What's happening on the mountain
Reunion
Reunion '26 opens for RSVP
Every invited guest gets a personal link. Lost yours? There is a door for that too.
Sport
Ninth straight fixture request declined
Union High have once again been invited to play us, and have once again found a reason not to.
Research
Nine years of soil data, now open
The Ridge Labs archive is published in full, from the first sample taken in the school's opening term.
Reunion 2026
Come up the hill.
Peak View and Union High, one night, on the hub at stateofeverything.uk. Your invitation carries a personal link. Follow it and tell us whether you are coming - and who you are bringing.