Coombe Girls' School

Last updated

Coombe Girls' School
Coombe Girls' School.jpg
Address
Coombe Girls' School
Clarence Avenue

New Malden
,
Greater London
,
KT3 3TU

England
Coordinates 51°24′37″N0°15′47″W / 51.41024°N 0.26317°W / 51.41024; -0.26317
Information
Type Academy
Religious affiliation(s)Multi-faith
Established1955
Department for Education URN 137848 Tables
Ofsted Reports
GenderGirls
Coeducational (sixth form)
Age11to 16 (up to 18 in sixth form)
Houses
  • Venus
  • Mercury
  • Mars
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Pluto
  • Neptune
Website http://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 and specialises in languages.

Contents

History

Coombe Girls' School was established in 1955 as Coombe County Secondary Girls' School (a name it kept until 1965) and has remained an all-girls school ever since. The school now forms part of the Coombe Academy Trust along with Coombe Boys' School and Knollmead, Green Lane and Robin Hood local primary schools.

Ofsted report

The school was inspected in 2024, with an overall judgement of Good. [1] . The school was judged as Good in 'Quality of Education', 'Behaviour and Attitudes', 'Leadership and Management' and 'Sixth Form Provision', and Outstanding in 'Personal Development'.

The inspectors commented that "Leaders provide a high-quality education to all pupils" and that "[they] are ambitious for the school and have implemented a number of changes recently". Although the attainment of students by the end of Year 13 was below the national average, pupils in Key Stage 4 were found to achieve very well across all subjects, and the inspectors remarked that the school "has made considerable improvements to strengthen the curriculum in the sixth form."

The school was previously inspected as Outstanding in 2013. [2]

Exam results

In 2024, 41% of all GCSE examinations were awarded grades 7 to 9 [3] , while the school achieved a provisional Progress 8 score of 0.7, classed as "well above the national average". [4]

The average grade achieved by 16–18 A-level students was C, below the national average. [5]

Coombe Girls' was named one of the best state secondary schools in the country in Tatler magazine's 2015 State Schools Guide. [6]

Notable alumni

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sheldon School</span> Academy in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England

Sheldon School is a large mixed secondary school and sixth form in Chippenham, Wiltshire for students aged 11 to 18 and is the largest school in Wiltshire. Since April 2011, it has been an Academy. It is one of three secondary schools in Chippenham, the others being Abbeyfield and Hardenhuish. The school is headed by Peter Lynch, former Headteacher of Bradley Stoke Community School, who was appointed in September 2023. The school is off the Hardenhuish Lane in the southern region of Hardenhuish Park, which is all that separates it from Hardenhuish School to the north.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">St Anne's Catholic School, Southampton</span> Academy in Southampton, Hampshire, England

St Anne's Catholic School is an 11-18 secondary school in Southampton, England, for girls. The school's sixth form is coeducational. The school is situated close to the city centre, and attracts pupils from all round the city and beyond. The school converted to academy status in August 2012. In January 2016, there were 1080 students enrolled, with 48 students at the end of Year 13.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bramhall High School</span> Nine-form entry 11-16 Comprehensive school in Stockport, England

Bramhall High School is a nine form entry, comprehensive high school for 11 to 16-year-olds in Bramhall, Stockport, England.

Ashlawn School, is a large partially selective secondary school located in the Hillmorton area of Rugby, Warwickshire, England that specialises in science, computing and leadership. It is one of only five bilateral schools in England for students aged 11–18. Ashlawn is a member of the Transforming Lives Educational Trust (TLET) family of schools.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kingsdale Foundation School</span> Academy in Southwark, London, England

Kingsdale Foundation School (KFS) is a British mixed secondary school with academy status in West Dulwich, London, with an age range of 11–19 (Year 7 to sixth form). Admissions to the school are coordinated by the Southwark London Borough Council as part of the Pan London Admissions Arrangements. However, many students live in surrounding boroughs, such as Lambeth, Lewisham and Croydon.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Clapton Girls' Academy</span> Academy in Lower Clapton, Greater London, England

Clapton Girls' Academy is a secondary school with academy status located in Lower Clapton, in the London Borough of Hackney, London, England.

Cannock Chase High School is a secondary school with academy status in Cannock, Staffordshire. The school is situated just north of the town centre, towards Blackfords, east of Cannock Chase Hospital.

Blatchington Mill School is a coeducational secondary school in Hove, Brighton and Hove for 11 to 16-year-olds.

Harris Boys' Academy East Dulwich (HBAED) is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status for boys, located in the Peckham area of the London Borough of Southwark, England. Students arrive from 55 different feeder schools.

Therfield School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Leatherhead, Surrey, England. Therfield School sixth form teaches courses of further education for students between the ages of 16 and 18 and has an arrangement of reciprocated entry criteria with three others in the county: The Ashcombe School, Warlingham School and Oxted School.

Outwood Academy Danum is an academy school serving the east of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Students primarily come from the Intake and Wheatley and Wheatley Hills estates, with some coming from nearby Armthorpe. The academy's name is based on that of former schools and is a nod to the Roman history of the town as Danum is the Roman name for Doncaster.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Valentines High School</span> Community school in Ilford, London, England

Valentines High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the Ilford area of the London Borough of Redbridge, England. It has approximately 1300 pupils and 93 teachers. Valentines has been a teaching school since 2011, and is a member of the Leading Edge partnership programme. In 2006, it was designated as a specialist school for technology and had technology college status.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Stepney All Saints School</span> Voluntary aided school in London, England

Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary School is a Church of England voluntary aided school and sixth form located in Stepney, London, England. The last Ofsted report in October 2015 rated SJCR School as "Outstanding."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Winton Academy</span> 11–16 boys academy in Bournemouth, Dorset, England

Winton Academy is an 11-16 boys secondary school located in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. By December 2018, a total of 774 boys were enrolled at the school. The current Head Teacher, Leon Lima, is the head of both Winton Academy and the separate girls' school, Glenmoor, both part of the United Learning trust.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Coombe Boys' School</span> Academy in New Malden, Greater London, England

Coombe Boys' School and Sixth Form is a non-selective state secondary school with a mixed sixth form in New Malden, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, England. The cohort comprises boys from Years 7 to 11, and a sixth form facility joint with Coombe Girls' School is offered for Year 12 and 13 students. The school specialises in sports and performing arts.

Sleaford Joint Sixth Form (SJSF) is a partnership in Sleaford, England, between Carre's Grammar School, Kesteven and Sleaford High School and St George's Academy. It enables sixth-formers based at them to study individual courses offered at any of the schools. This makes provision more economical and gives students a choice of approximately 60 A-Level or Level 3 vocational courses.

Harris Girls' Academy Bromley, originally Cator Park School for Girls, is a secondary school in Beckenham in the London Borough of Bromley, England, for girls between the ages of 11 and 18, with boys joining in Sixth Form. In 2011, the school joined a federation of academies in South London called the Harris Federation, named after the Lord Harris of Peckham who is sponsoring them.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sir Herbert Leon Academy</span> Academy in Milton Keynes, England

Sir Herbert Leon Academy is a coeducational comprehensive secondary academy school and sixth form located in Bletchley, Milton Keynes, England. It is currently sponsored by the Academies Enterprise Trust, having become an academy under this sponsorship. Originally founded as two separate boys and girls schools on Bletchley Road (Queensway), the schools unified as a coeducational senior school in 1937. In the 1960s it was renamed to Leon Secondary School, in honour of Sir Herbert Leon, and relocated to Fern Grove in 1971, becoming a comprehensive. The school specialised and became the Leon School and Sports College sometime between 1996 and 2001, and academized as Sir Herbert Leon Academy in 2012. Between 2011 and 2014, the school hosted one of two campuses for the Milton Keynes South Sixth Form, in collaboration with nearby Lord Grey School.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cheltenham Bournside School</span> Secondary school in Gloucestershire, England

Cheltenham Bournside School and Sixth Form Centre, more commonly referred to as Bournside School or simply Bournside, is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. The school initially opened as Gloucester Road Elementary School in 1919, going through several different reforms before becoming Cheltenham Bournside School in 1972.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">David Nieper Academy</span> Academy in Derbyshire, England

David Nieper Academy is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Alfreton in the English county of Derbyshire. It is the first school in Derbyshire to be sponsored by a local business.

References

  1. Johnson, Sam (2024). "Coombe Girls' School". Ofsted. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  2. Aziz, Zahid (2013). "Coombe Girls' School". Ofsted. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  3. "Exam Results and School Performance". Coombe Girls' School. 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  4. "Compare School and College Performance in England – Coombe Girls' School – Secondary". Gov.uk. 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  5. "Compare School and College Performance in England – Coombe Girls' School – 16 to 18". Gov.uk. 2024. Retrieved 10 December 2024.
  6. "The Tatler State Schools Guide 2015: Secondary Schools". Tatler Magazine. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  7. Look-In Issue 7, 20th February 1971, p19