Chiswick School

The school has a wide catchment, encompassing its native borough of Hounslow, but also areas including Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond, and Hammersmith and Fulham. As of 2004, the school's intake was almost 60 percent male, explained by the number of girls' schools nearby.{{Cite web |date=25 November 2004 |title=Chiswick Community School Inspection Report |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/801121 |url-status=live |website=Ofsted|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227130957/https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/801121 |archive-date=27 December 2021 }} Half of the school's students are of minority ethnic backgrounds, and 44% are from ‘disadvantaged’ backgrounds. 50% have English as their second language.{{Cite web |last=Meinke |first=John |date=23 April 2012 |title=Chiswick School Inspection report|url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/1971607 |url-status=live |website=Ofsted|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227125648/https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/1971607 |archive-date=27 December 2021 }} The percentage of disadvantaged students receiving help from the pupil premium is also above average.{{Cite web |date=26 October 2017|title=Inspection report: Chiswick School, 3–4 October 2017 |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2732799|url-status=live |website=Ofsted|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227125649/https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2732799 |archive-date=27 December 2021 }}

Chiswick County School for Girls opened in 1916 in Burlington Lane, and Chiswick County School for Boys opened in 1926 beside the girls' school.{{cite book |last=Clegg |first=Gillian |title=Chiswick Past |publisher=Historical Publications |year=1995 |isbn=0-94866-733-8 |page=107}} Rory K. Hands was appointed head of the boys school in 1963, and in 1966, he oversaw a merger of the two institutions, to form the co-educational Chiswick County Grammar School. Shortly thereafter, the Borough proposed that Hands' grammar school should be merged with two nearby secondary modern schools to form a comprehensive school,{{Cite news |last=Olding |first=George |date=23 April 2015 |title=Funeral of educational pioneer takes place today |url=https://www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/12906625.funeral-of-educational-pioneer-takes-place-today/|work=Wandsworth Times}} following Circular 10/65. This amalgamation created Chiswick Comprehensive School, which opened in 1968. The new school operated across two sites, with the lower school (for ages 11 to 14) occupying what had been the secondary modern school's buildings at Staveley Road, and the upper school operating on the old grammar school site at Burlington Lane.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.

In 1973, some of the buildings at Staveley Road had to be closed as they were made of brittle high alumina cement. The school was forced to operate with a "village of huts"; Hands maintained school morale with a production of The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan. He retired the headship in 1975 after suffering a series of heart attacks.{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Paul |date=23 April 2015 |title=Pioneering former Headmaster of Chiswick Community School has died aged 96 |work=The Chiswick Herald |url=https://chiswickherald.co.uk/pioneering-former-headmaster-of-chiswick-community-school-has-died-aged-p3674-95.htm |access-date=18 July 2021}} Dame Helen Metcalf was the school's headteacher from 1988 to 2001, providing strong and emotionally intelligent leadership.{{cite news |title=Dame Helen Metcalf |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dame-helen-metcalf-37701.html |access-date=18 July 2021 |work=The Independent |date=27 December 2003}} 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.{{cite web |last=Norris |first=Frank |date=15 August 2012 |title=Academy conversion and predecessor school |url=https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2048247 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227123738/https://files.ofsted.gov.uk/v1/file/2048247 |archive-date=27 December 2021 }}

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• [http://www.chiswickschool.org Official site]
• [https://twitter.com/@chiswickschool Official Twitter]
• [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/N13931237 National Archives: minutes of the School Board 1872-1903]
• [https://archive.today/20121224222259/http://www.chiswick.hounslow.sch.uk/gallery/?pid=3&gcatid=1&albumid=23 Visit Gallery]

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