Ripplevale School is located in East Kent near the seaside town of Deal. We are an independent special school catering for the needs of boys aged seven to sixteen who are statemented as having social, emotional and behavioural difficulties and associated syndromes. The School is approved and registered and is able to accommodate a maximum of sixty boys offering both day and boarding placements The main house was originally the home of Field Marshall Sir John Denton Pinkstone French, the first Earl of Ypres. His grave is in the cemetery at Ripple Church and there is a memorial plaque to his name in the chapel in Deal Castle where he died.

The house was brought by Charles Cherrill in 1910 and was gradually converted into a preparatory school called ‘Upton School’. In the intervening years the house has been used by the military during the war, been a hotel and was a guest house when it was bought to become Ripplevale School, as it is now, and was opened in 1970. The original house was built between 1714 and 1837, and is a listed building in 15 acres of grounds.

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 We are proud to announce the 2008 Exam Results, download them here!