Since then, Hogwarts educated most wizarding children in the United Kingdom and its surrounding areas, keeping its location hidden from other wizarding schools and muggles.
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11 Facts About Hogwarts
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Hogwarts is a coeducational, secondary boarding school, taking children from ages eleven to seventeen.
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Education at Hogwarts is not compulsory, with some students being home schooled as stated in the seventh book.
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Hogwarts's later suggested around six hundred, while acknowledging that this number was still inconsistent with the small number of people in Harry's year.
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Hogwarts's further explained that this had resulted from her creating only 40 characters for Harry's year.
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Primary mode of transport to Hogwarts is the Hogwarts Express that students take at the start of each school year.
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Hogwarts is divided into four houses, each bearing the last name of its founder: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff.
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Houses at Hogwarts are living and learning communities for their students.
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Hogwarts's opened the door, intending to tell him to leave, but died immediately upon meeting the Basilisk's gaze and decided to become a ghost to get revenge on Hornby.
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Hogwarts school was voted as the 36th best Scottish educational establishment in a 2008 online ranking, outranking Edinburgh's Loretto School.
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