Hampton is a day school for about 1100 boys between 11 and 19 years of age, with a Sixth Form of over 300, maintaining the Hampton School traditions of academic achievement and wide-ranging activities.

One of the great strengths of Hamptons excellent games programme is that boys are not obliged to play any particular sport and can make their own choice. Though games play a comparatively small part in the formal curriculum, large numbers of boys enthusiastically maintain the school's sporting tradition by voluntarily taking part in representative fixtures and regattas.

Unusually, both Rugby and Association Football are played as parallel major games with full fixture lists throughout the two winter terms, fielding between them 30 or so teams across the complete age-range. The main summer sports are Cricket, Tennis and Athletics; Rowing is a popular year-round activity for Third Forms and above. Badminton, Basketball, Fencing, Swimming and Table Tennis clubs have representative matches against other schools, and large parties of boys go abroad each year to ski. There are also opportunities (usually for senior boys) for Squash, Real Tennis (at Hampton Court Palace), Golf, Sailing and Wind-surfing: coaching is provided for beginners as well as for those with some skill in the sport. Despite the range of sports, our standards are very high. The Boat Club's reputation is international: Hampton has led the way in producing national and international rowers. The 2001 and 2002 Boat Races both had four Hampton oarsmen.

In 2009 the 1st XV Rugby team reached the Final of the Daily Mail U18 Vase, playing at Twickenham. In the same year the U15 XV reached the quarter finals. In 2010, the 1st XV reached the last sixteen of the Daily Mail Cup, losing to Skinners narrowly, and the U15 XV reached the semi-finals.

Hampton have produced a number of Middlesex County, London and South East England Division and international representatives. Most recently, Will Browne and Seb Jewell represented England U18 and U20 respectively. Will Browne went on to win an Oxford Blue representing Oxford University in the 2009 Nomura Varisty match at Twickenham. Richard Coskie represented England U16A in 2006-07. Callum Burke represented Ireland U18 and Fraser Wem represented Scotland U17 in 2009. In 2010 Guy Bentley was selected in the England U16 development squad whilst Fraser Wem went on to be included in the Scotland U18 Six Nations squad. Four recent leavers hold professional rugby contracts.

Another Old Boy, Simon Amor, recently captained the England VII and was IRB Sevens Player of the Year. In summer 2007 there were 19 boys in the School with international honours.

The school has run a number of tours across the world in recent years. In rugby, tours have gone to South Africa (2007) and Canada (2009). The next tour will see a senior squad travel to America, New Zealand and Fiji in 2011.

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