Neil Clayton

Founding Headmaster, Lucton School Shanghai

Mr Clayton is the Founding Headmaster of Lucton School Shanghai. He has been in Education for over 15 years. He holds a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Animal Biology from The University of Birmingham and trained as a teacher at Loughborough University. He started his teaching career in Devon, South West England and quickly rose to the position of Assistant Principal at Okehampton College. In 2014, Okehampton College was judged outstanding in all inspection categories by Ofsted and was identified in the top 8% of schools nationally for value added. Whilst at Okehampton Neil completed Leadership Pathways from the National College of Teaching and Learning.

He moved to Malaysia in December 2014 as the Head teacher of Asia Pacific International School, a very successful K-10 school part of the ILMU Education Group, Malaysia’s leading integrated private education group in Kuala Lumpur. He is currently the Principal of one of the top performing International programmes in Ningbo, Zhejiang that has a 100% record in placing students in some of the best Universities globally. In 2017 75% of students entered the top 50 US colleges and universities and top 20 UK universities including such prestigious establishments such as the School of Art Institute of Chicago (US), UCLA (US), Penn State University (US), the University of Cambridge (UK), and Imperial College London (UK).

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