Graveney School

Graveney School
Location
Tooting, Wandsworth , London , SW17 9BU England
Information
Type	Comprehensive school
Motto	Committed to Excellence
Established	1986
Chairman of the Governors	Don Atkins
Top Student	Jaspreet Singh Bansal of 12LXG
Headmaster	Keith Barbrook
Staff	200 (approx.)
Gender	Co-educational
Age	11 to 19
Enrollment	2,000
Houses	3
Colour(s)	Black, yellow and blue
Affiliation	Battersea Grammar School
Website	http://www.graveney.org/

Graveney School is a grant-maintained secondary school in the Furzedown area of Tooting in south west London. The Principal is Graham Stapleton and the Head Teacher is Keith Barbrook. It teaches years 7 to 11 (ages 11 to 16), with nine classes per year averaging thirty students each. Together with the sixth form (years 12 and 13), this totals nearly 2000 children and young adults. Graveney operates a system in years 7 to 9 whereby the students are divided into houses for inter-house competitions and other similar activities. The three houses are named Rosa Bassett, St. Johns and Ensham.

History

Whilst Graveney School can trace its origins back to a school set up in Battersea in 1669, the modem Graveney (which was established in 1986) is an amalgamation of Battersea Grammar School, Rosa Bassett Grammar School, Furzedown School and Ensham School. The school occupies a site either side of Welham Road in Tooting, south west London. It has nine buildings, six of which surround a tree-lined campus. There is Furzedown house, Red house, College house, Lower School, Upper Science, Lower Science, Jubilee Block, an independent study centre and a large sports gym. Furzedown House is Georgian, but the majority of the buildings were built immediately before and after the First World War after they were bombed.

External links

• Graveney School website