Regent House School

Regent House School is a co-educational, controlled grammar school in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland. The school comprises two parts: the grammar school and the preparatory department. Its current enrollment is 1486 students within the grammar school and 95 within the prep department.
Regent House considers itself to be non-denominational, however, its current statistics show students at the school to be 57% Protestant, 7% Roman Catholic and 36% other.
The school is divided into four houses: Castlereagh, Clandeboye, Scrabo and Strangford.

Inspections

The school was inspected by the Controlled Schools' Support Council 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.

In 2017 the school's choir won BBC Radio Ulster School Choir of the Year.
In 2024 the chamber choir placed third in the UK in the Barnardos National Choral Competition.

Name	Notability	Ref
Jim Allister	MP, leader of the Traditional Unionist Voice, former MLA
Nigel Carr	Former British Lions rugby player
David Coulter	Minister in the Church of Scotland, Chaplain General in the British Army
Holly Hamilton	BBC journalist and presenter
Simon Hamilton	Politician, former MLA
Eddie Irvine	Formula One driver
Phillip Matthews	Former Ireland rugby union international
Maxine Mawhinney	BBC newsreader
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne DSO & 3 Bars	Founding member of the SAS, former British Lions rugby player
Rhys McClenaghan	Olympic gymnast, gold medalist for Ireland at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Michael McGimpsey	Former Ulster Unionist Party politician, former MLA
Catherine Jean Milligan	Former Miss Northern Ireland
Colin Murray	Broadcaster
Ottilie Patterson	Blues singer with the Chris Barber jazz band