Chiswick Community School

Chiswick School

Established	1968
Type	Foundation School
Headteacher	Tony Ryan
Specialism	Technology
Location	Burlington Lane Chiswick London W4 3UN England
Local authority	Hounslow
DfE number	???/4020
DfE URN	102532
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1201
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11–18
Website	Official site

Chiswick Community School (CCS) is located in Chiswick in the West London borough of Hounslow, in 2004 it had 1239 students including 208 Sixth Formers.

Admissions

CCS is located beside Chiswick House and has adopted a picture of the house 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.

CCS 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. About a quarter of the school's pupils are deemed to have special needs. Because of the prevalence of prominent all girls schools in the local area, Chiswick Community School's intake is roughly 60% male.

It is situated next to Alexandra Avenue (A316), south of Chiswick House and near the Civil Service Sports Ground. Joan Ann Maynard is a teacher.

Academic performance

In 2011, 92% of Chiswick Community School students achieved 5 GCSE or equivalents at grades A* to C in a school record for this measure, whilst 60% achieved 5 good grades including English and Maths.

In 2011, A fantastic set of A level results was achieved by Chiswick Community School Thirty three percent of results were in the A and A* category. This was double the number achieved last year- the highest in the Hounslow Borough.

History

Former schools

Chiswick Community School comes from the amalgamation of three schools:

• Chiswick County School for Girls, which opened in 1916 in Burlington Lane.
• Chiswick County School for Boys, which opened in 1926 adjacent to the girls school. These two combined in 1966 to become the co-educational Chiswick County Grammar School.
• A "central" school which opened in 1927 in Staveley Road, becoming a secondary modern school, then merging with the grammar school to become Chiswick Comprehensive School (or Just Chiswick School) in 1968. The school continued on two sites with the lower school (from age 11 to age 14) on the Stavely Road site and the Upper school on the Burlington Road site. In the summer of 1973 serious weakness were found in one of the buildings on the Stavely Road site ( due to high alumina cement Calcium_aluminate_cements) and the building was forced to close. A village of huts was erected on the Burlington Road site and the "third year" moved from the lower school to the upper school site. Many years later the school was partially re-built and all the school moved to Burlington Road. In the entry year of 1971 there were 12 forms of 30 pupils and the school approached 1800 pupils.

Sometime after 1978 it took the name Chiswick Community School.

Main view of the central buildings from Burlington Lane

Comprehensive

Dame Helen Metcalf was the headteacher for 13 years. It became Chiswick Comprehensive School in 1968.

Notable alumni

• Rolan Bell - actor, Eastender
• James Stevenson - musician
• Carlton Cole - footballer, West Ham United
• Charlotte Hatherley - musician
• Fola Onibuje - footballer
• Natalie Sawyer - TV presenter, Sky Sports News

Chiswick County School for Boys

• Prof John Stuart Archer CBE, Vice-Chancellor from 1997-2006 of Heriot-Watt University, and Professor of Petroleum Engineering from 1986–97, and President from 2005-6 of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
• Phil Collins, singer/songwriter
• John Neville, starred in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

External links

• Official site
• Ofsted report, 2004
• EduBase