The number of people who remember a school and want to keep in touch with their old classmates must say something about the schools quality and the kind of experience that it provides.

In 2004 Friends Reunited surveyed all 22, 000 secondary schools on its data base and discovered that Elliott school was the friendliest school in the UK. Their findings were based on the number of former students registered and the average number of messages sent between registered users.

An astonishing 4,843 former students were registered at the time of the survey and they had sent an average of 4.47 messages to old friends and colleagues.

You can read the Guardian's report on the survey here.

You can see the full league table here.

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