Sydenham School

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Sydenham School
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Address
Sydenham School
Dartmouth Road

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SE26 4RD

Coordinates 51°26′03″N0°03′32″W / 51.434167°N 0.058889°W / 51.434167; -0.058889
Information
Type Community School
MottoAim high, Achieve Higher.
Established1917
Local authority Lewisham
Department for Education URN 100741 Tables
Ofsted Reports
HeadteacherEmma Wijnberg
GenderGirls
Age11to 18
Enrolment4 (capacity 7.8)
Colour(s)Blue
Website http://www.sydenham.lewisham.sch.uk

Sydenham School is a comprehensive girls' school located on Dartmouth Road (A2216) in Sydenham, London.

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History

The school was founded in 1917 as a girls' grammar school, known as Sydenham County Grammar School for Girls. London County Council commissioned Basil Spence & Partners, in the early 1950s, to design additional accommodation to allow the school to increase capacity from 600 to 1140 students and to merge with Shackleton School to become a comprehensive school. This took place in 1956 on completion of the new six-storey, E-shaped, classroom block, on which work had begun in 1954. The official opening ceremony took place on 28 February 1957. [1]

In 2003 Sydenham School was granted Specialist Science College status and in 2008 it was granted Specialist in Mathematics by the DfES. Sydenham School has close ties to Forest Hill School, a nearby boys' comprehensive school.

Form system

In each year there are 8 tutor groups, named for the letters in SYDENHAM.

Admissions

The current headmistress is Ms Emma Wijnberg. It has always been a girls' school. Forest Hill Pools and Forest Hill library is next door.

Academic performance

In the last OFSTED inspection, Sydenham School was graded as 'good with outstanding features '. It gets GCSEs and A levels above the England average.(64%)

Notable former pupils

Sydenham County Grammar School for Girls

See also

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