Which school did J.K. Rowling attend in Gloucestershire during her childhood?

J.K. Rowling attended Wyedean School in Gloucestershire during her childhood.

Rowling grew up partly in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill and attended Wyedean School and Sixth Form Centre in nearby Sedbury. She studied there from 1976 to 1983. The school years placed her in the Forest of Dean area, a setting often discussed in accounts of her early life.

Her childhood reading, school experiences, and friendships helped shape her interests, although the characters and institutions in Harry Potter are not simple copies of particular classmates or teachers. Rowling has described several inspirations for names and personalities, but individual real-life parallels are frequently overstated.

Wyedean School is sometimes confused with schools Rowling attended later or with fictional Hogwarts. Hogwarts is an invented school in the novels; Wyedean is the real secondary school she attended before studying at the University of Exeter.