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Coombe Girls' School

Coordinates: 51°24′37″N 0°15′47″W / 51.41024°N 0.26317°W / 51.41024; -0.26317
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Coombe Girls' School
Address
Map
Clarence Avenue

New Malden
,
Greater London
,
KT3 3TU

England
Coordinates51°24′37″N 0°15′47″W / 51.41024°N 0.26317°W / 51.41024; -0.26317
Information
TypeAcademy
Religious affiliation(s)Multi-faith
Established1955
Department for Education URN137848 Tables
OfstedReports
GenderGirls
Age11 to 18
Houses
  • Venus
  • Mercury
  • Mars
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Pluto
  • Neptune
Websitehttp://www.coombegirlsschool.org/

Coombe Girls' School and Sixth Form is an all-girls secondary school with academy status in New Malden, South West London. It offers a co-educational sixth form joint with nearby Coombe Boys' School. The school is a Leading Edge School, a Training School and specialises in languages. The school together with Coombe Boys' forms part of the Coombe Academy Trust.

History

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Coombe Girls' School, formerly called Coombe County Secondary School for Girls, was established in 1955,[citation needed] and has remained an all-girls school ever since. The school is federated with Coombe Boys School.

In September 2012 the school had a new headteacher, Mrs Walls, who succeeded Mrs Campbell. Since then,[when?] the school has seen Ms Barnes as Headteacher.

School inspections

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As of 2023, the school's most recent inspection by Ofsted was in 2013, with a judgement of Outstanding.[1]

Houses

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The school sorts the pupils into house tutor groups. Citizenship is taught in these groups.[2] These are named after seven of the planets in the solar system and one constellation.

Each group has a form tutor who will be with the class for registration before school and after fifth period. This tutor will stay with their class, unless they leave the school, for the whole five years in which the girls are pupils of the school.

Up to Year 9, subjects apart from Maths, Science, Art, English and Technology are taught in Teaching Groups.[citation needed]

Exam results

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Coombe Girls' School's overall exam results ranked in the top 20% of similar schools' results, and in the top 20% of all schools, for 2013.[3]

The Federation was named one of the best state secondary schools in the country in Tatler magazine's 2015 State Schools Guide.[4]

In 2016 the school received a letter from Nick Gibb MP congratulating the school on being in the top 100 non selective state-funded schools for the percentage of pupils attaining 5 GCSEs at A* to C with English and Mathematics, for the percentage achieving the English Baccalaureate and for the school's key stage 2 to key stage 4 value added figure.[citation needed]

Notable former pupils

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References

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  1. ^ Aziz, Zahid (2013). "Coombe Girls' School". Ofsted. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  2. ^ "Coombe Girls' School Handbook". Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  3. ^ "Coombe Girls' School (academy converter)". Ofsted. Archived from the original on 6 February 2015. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  4. ^ "The Tatler State Schools Guide 2015: Secondary Schools". Tatler Magazine. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  5. ^ Look-In Issue 7, 20th February 1971, p19
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