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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.

In 2009, the 1st XV reached the Final of the Daily Mail U18 Vase, playing at Twickenham, and have since been in the Cup competition's Last 16 in 2010, 2011 and 2012, losing narrowly on each occasion. In 2013, the 1st XV reached the semi-finals of the Daily Mail RBS U18 Cup where they narrowly lost 11-5 to the eventual competition winners Dulwich College. The U15 XV reached the quarter finals in 2009 and the semi finals in 2010 of the U15 RBS Daily Mail Cup competitions.

Hampton's Schools Cup (formerly NatWest and Daily Mail RBS (U15 and U18)) Performance

U15 Daily Mail Cup Record:

• 2006/7 - Round 4
• 2007/8 - Round 3
• 2008/9 - Quarter Finals
• 2009/10 - Semi Finals
• 2010/11 - Round 2
• 2011/12 - Round 6 (last 32)
• 2012/13 - Round 5 (last 64
• 2013/14 - Round 5 (last 64)
• 2014/15 - Round 5 (last 64)
• 2015/16 - Round of 16
• 2016/17 - Round 3 (last 64) - new shortened format

U18 Daily Mail Cup Record:

• 1993/4 - Round 4
• 2005/6 - Round 4
• 2006/7 - Round 1
• 2007/8 - Round 1
• 2008/9 - Round 2
• 2009/10 - Round 7 (Regional Final / Last 16)
• 2010/11 - Round 7 (Regional Final / Last 16)
• 2011/12 – Round 7 (Regional Final / Last 16)
• 2012/13 - Semi-Finalists
• 2013/14 - Quarter Finalists
• 2014/15 - Quarter-Finalists
• 2015/16 - Quarter-Finalists
• 2016/17 - Champions Trophy Last 32
• 2017/18 - Quarter-Finalists

U18 Daily Mail Vase Record:

• 2006/7 - Round 5
• 2007/8 - Round 3
• 2008/9 - Runners Up

U18 HSBC National Schools' Rosslyn Park Sevens - Open (Recent Performance):

• 2006 - Round 2 Play Off
• 2007 - Group Stages
• 2008 - Group Stages
• 2009 - Group Stages
• 2010 - Group Stages
• 2011 - Group Stages
• 2012 - Group Stages
• 2013 - Quarter Final
• 2014 - Quarter Final
• 2015 - Plate Runners-Up
• 2016 - Group Stages
• 2017 - Group Stages

Recent U18 sevens, tens and fifteen-a-side tournament victories have included:

• 1998 - Middlesex U18 Invitation Sevens Winners
• 2000 - Middlesex U18 Invitation Sevens Winners
• 2006 - Middlesex U18 Invitation Sevens Winners
• 2011 - Middlesex U18 Invitation Sevens Winners
• 2011 - Esher President's Cup Winners
• 2012 - Powder Byrne Schools' Six Nations Tens Winners
• 2012 - Jack Chester Memorial Cup Winners
• 2013 - Middlesex U18 Invitation Sevens Winners
• 2013 - Jack Chester Memorial Cup Winners
• 2014 - Esher President's Cup Winners
• 2015 - South Coast Kings Cup Winners
• 2015 - St Joseph's National Schools Festival Cup Winners
• 2016 - Hampton Founders Sevens Cup Winners
• 2016 - St Joseph's National Schools Festival Plate Winners
• 2017 - Hampton Founders Sevens Cup Winners
• 2017 - Middlesex U18 Invitation Sevens Winners
• 2017 - Gulliever's Sports Surrey Open Invitational Cup Winners

Hampton have produced a number of Middlesex and Surrey County, London and South East England Division and international representatives - A list of the school's internationals can be found below. Most famously, Hampton old boy, Simon Amor, captained the England senior VII and was IRB Sevens Player of the Year. A number of recent leavers hold professional rugby contracts, with the most recent being Alex Lundberg at London Wasps.

Hampton School International Honours

• 1965 – D Travis, England U19
• 1968 – M Hepple, England U19
• 1969 – R Bell, England U19
• 1974 – T Bryan, England U19
• 1974 – N Hassell, England U19
• 1980 – S Heaver, England U18
• 1986 – A MacDonald, England U18
• 1994 – D Smyth, England U18
• 1997 – S Amor, England U18
• 1997 – A Beattie, England U18
• 2005 – R Coskie, England U16 A
• 2007 – W Browne, England U18
• 2007 – S Jewell, England U20
• 2009 – C Burke, Ireland U18
• 2009 - F Wem, Scotland U17
• 2010 - F Wem, Scotland U18
• 2010 - L Hopkinson, England U17
• 2010 - G Bentley, England U16A
• 2011 - A Lundberg, England U16
• 2012 - N Barry, USA U18
• 2012 - A Lundberg, England U18
• 2013 - A Lundberg, England U20
• 2013 - H Hall, Denmark U18
• 2014 - Zack Santos, England U16 Saxons
• 2014 - Roman Malin-Hiscock, England U16 Lions
• 2016 - Shane Barry, USA U16
• 2016 - Will Attfield, England Sevens
• 2017 - Louis Lynagh, England U16

The school has run a number of senior tours across the world in recent years. The following senior rugby tours have taken place:

• 2007 - South Africa
• 2009 - Canada
• 2011 - USA, New Zealand and Fiji
• 2013 - South Africa
• 2015 - Argentina, Uruguay, Chile
• 2017 - Canada and USA

Other Notable Individual Achievemnts in 2016/17 include -

• Tom Tomlin (U14), Jack Berg, Alex Riches and Aidan Barry (U15) were selected for the Harlequins Developing Player Pathway.
• Ethan Knight (U13), Jamie Benson (U14), & Louis Lynagh (U16) were all selected for the Harlequins Elite Player Development Group.
• Stan Humphry and Nick Van Der Merwe (U17) were selected in the Wasps Developing Player Pathway.
• Dylan Straker-Grimes, Jesper Hartikainen, Alex Taylor, Matthew Le Moign, Tim Lamming and Rupert Reddish (U14), Tommy Nagle, Sam Southall, William Howting, Patrick Silcox, Louis Goodwin and Max Goldin (U15), Nick Bitzakidis, Billy Franklin and Gwilym Bradley (U16) and Charlie Longford (U17) were all selected for the London Irish Developing Player Pathway.
• Billy Franklin and Arthur Thomas were both selected for Welsh Exiles U16.
• Rory Carroll was selected for Irish Exiles U18 tour of Ireland.
• Louis Lynagh was selected as vice-captain for England U16 v Wales U16.