George Green's School

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Coordinates 51°29′16″N0°00′28″W / 51.48786°N 0.00787°W / 51.48786; -0.00787
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Type Voluntary controlled comprehensive school
Mottoes Latin: Fideleter (Faithfully);
Aspiration, Equality, Excellence
Established1828;196 years ago (1828)
Founder George Green
Local authority Tower Hamlets
Department for Education URN 100974 Tables
Ofsted Reports
PrincipalJon Ryder
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 19
Enrolment1219 (Ofsted report 2022)
Website www.georgegreens.com

George Green's School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form, located in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. [1]

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History

Former premises of George Green's Grammar School, located in Poplar. Former George Green's Grammar School.jpg
Former premises of George Green's Grammar School, located in Poplar.

The school, which was originally located on East India Dock Road, was founded in 1828 by George Green, a shipbuilder and shipwright. [2] A maritime connection with the school has been maintained since then. In 1884, the school moved from the original buildings to new premises which provided places for 200 boys and 200 girls, in separate classrooms. The pupils paid modest fees or were assisted with scholarships. Later it became a LCC maintained school and was the first to institute co-education. It remained open until 1979 when it became part of Tower Hamlets College. Today it is a voluntary controlled school supported by the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights. [3] It has a comprehensive intake of pupils, and is administered by Tower Hamlets London Borough Council.

Grammar school

It was a voluntary-controlled coeducational grammar school located on East India Dock Road Poplar.

Comprehensive

In 1975 it became a comprehensive, moving to a new site on the Isle of Dogs.

Admissions

George Green's School offers GCSEs and vocational courses as programmes of study for pupils, [4] while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels [5] and the IB Diploma Programme. [6]

Notable former pupils

George Green's Grammar School

George Green's Comprehensive

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References

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