Ensham School

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Ensham School
Address
Ensham School
Franciscan Road

, ,
SW17 8HE

Coordinates 51°25′34″N0°09′47″W / 51.426°N 0.163°W / 51.426; -0.163
Information
Type Comprehensive
Establishedc. 1905
Closed1986
Local authority ILEA
GenderGirls
Age11to 18

Ensham School was a girls' comprehensive school in Tooting, South London. During the 1930s, it was a mixed central school. By the 1950s, it had become a girls' secondary modern school. It was later made a comprehensive school.

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The school closed when it was amalgamated in 1986 with Furzedown Secondary School, a mixed comprehensive school, to create the new Graveney School on the former Furzedown Secondary School site.

History

Ensham School was constructed during the period of expansion of Tooting at turn of the 20th century.

By the 1930s, it was known as Ensham Central (Mixed) School. [1] [2] In the late 1950s, the school was called Ensham County Secondary School. [3] It later became Ensham Secondary School.

In the 1930s, the school was a mixed central school, becoming a girls' secondary modern school by the 1950s and a girls' comprehensive school by the early 1960s.

In 1986, Ensham was amalgamated with Furzedown Secondary School, a mixed comprehensive school, to create the new Graveney School. [4] Initially the school operated in both the former Ensham and Furzedown buildings, but eventually the Ensham site was closed.

Notable former pupils

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References

  1. "Ensham Central (Mixed) School, Franciscan Road, S.W.17 – Minutes of Managers – ref. LCC/EO/PS/5/11". London County Council. Access to Archives. Retrieved 8 December 2007.
  2. "Two Adolescent Years – Chamberlain to Blitz – Part One". WW2 People's War. BBC. 2004. Retrieved 8 December 2007.
  3. "Wandsworth: Ensham County Secondary School". ED 109/9330. The National Archives. Retrieved 8 December 2007.
  4. Graveney School [Prospectus] for September 2008. Graveney School. 2007. p. 5. Retrieved 8 December 2007.[ permanent dead link ]