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.
Headteacher: Mrs Emma Wijnberg
Telephone Number: 020 8699 6731
Telephone Number (when calling from abroad): +44 20 8699 6731
URN: 100741
DfE Code: 209/4204
1,445 pupils between the ages of 11 and 18.
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