Chiswick School

Chiswick School /ˈtʃɪzɪk/ (listen) is an English secondary school with academy status in Chiswick, West London. It educates more than 1,200 pupils, aged 11 to 18 years. The school also includes 200 pupils studying at the upper school sixth form, which is 9within the school grounds.

Chiswick School
Address
Burlington Lane – Staveley Road

Chiswick
,
London
,
W4 3UN

England
Coordinates51.48192°N 0.25981°W / 51.48192; -0.25981
Information
TypeAcademy
MottoEmpowering Students to be Ambitious and Proud
Established1968
FounderR.K Hands
Department for Education URN137907 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherLaura Ellener
GenderMixed
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1288
Colour(s)Royal Blue   Navy   White  
PublicationChiswick School News
Websitehttp://www.chiswickschool.org

Admissions

Chiswick School is beside Chiswick House, and uses an icon of that building as its logo. Most of the buildings are new, however the North Eastern block still remains from the original girls' school. Before the school was built a farm was on the site. Due to its location it has a very wide catchment area taking pupils from the borough of Hounslow as well as Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond, Hammersmith and Fulham and Ealing.

Chiswick School prides itself on being a very multicultural school; its students have ethnic backgrounds ranging from Asian to African. Due to this diversity, it has double the national average of students for whom English is a second language. Because of the prevalence of prominent all-girls schools in the local area, Chiswick School's intake is roughly 60% male.

History

Chiswick County School for Girls opened in 1916 in Burlington Lane.[1] Chiswick County School for Boys, opened in 1926 beside the girls school.[1] These two combined in 1966 to form the co-educational Chiswick County Grammar school.[1] Meanwhile, a "central" school opened in 1927 in Staveley Road, becoming a secondary modern school, then merging with the grammar school to become Chiswick Comprehensive School in 1968.[1] The school continued on two sites with the lower school (from ages 11 to 14) on the Staveley Road site and the upper school on the Burlington Road site.[2]

During the amalgamation period and after, Rory K. Hands was Headteacher. In 1973, the secondary school buildings had to be closed as they were built with the brittle high alumina cement. The school operated with a "village of huts"; Hands maintained school morale with a production of The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan. The strain of the amalgamation and running a very large school took its toll; he retired after a series of heart attack in 1975.[3]

Dame Helen Metcalf was a strong[4] and emotionally intelligent headteacher[4] from 1988 to 2001; she was made DBE for services to education in 1998.[4]

Sometime after 1978 the school was renamed Chiswick Community School; the name reverted to Chiswick School when it became an academy on 1 March 2012.

Notable former pupils

References
  1. Clegg, Gillian (1995). Chiswick Past. Historical Publications. p. 107. ISBN 0-94866-733-8.
  2. Diane K. Bolton, Patricia E. C. Croot and M. A. Hicks, "[ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol7/pp95-99 Chiswick: Education]", in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7, Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden, ed. T F T Baker and C R Elrington (London, 1982), pp. 95-99. British History Online, accessed 18 July 2021.
  3. Williams, Paul (23 April 2015). "Share Facebook Twitter Pioneering former Headmaster of Chiswick Community School has died aged 96". The Chiswick Herald. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  4. "Dame Helen Metcalf". The Independent. 27 December 2003. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  5. "Former Chiswick School Pupil at Centre of Partygate Row". Chiswick W4. 8 December 2021. Retrieved 8 December 2021.
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