Chiswick Community School

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Chiswick Community School
Established	1968
Type	State/Technology College
Headteacher	Alan Howson
Location	Chiswick London England
Ofsted number	102532
Students	1,239
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11 to 18
Website	Official site

Chiswick Community School (CCS) is located in Chiswick in the West London borough of Hounslow, in 2004 it had 1239 students including 208 Sixth Formers.

CCS is located beside Chiswick House and has adopted a picture of the house as its logo. Most of the buildings are new, however the North Eastern block still remains from the original girls' school. Before the school was built a farm was on the site. Due to its location it has a very wide catchment area taking pupils from the borough of Hounslow as well as Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond, Hammersmith and Fulham and Ealing.

CCS prides itself on being a very multicultural school; its students have ethnic backgrounds ranging from African, Middle Eastern, New Zealand, Caribbean to European and British. Due to this diversity, it has double the national average of students for whom English is a second language. About a quarter of the school's pupils are deemed to have special needs. Because of the prevelance of prominent all girls schools in the local area, Chiswick Community School's intake is roughly 60% male.

In its last Ofsted report, in 2004, the school was deemed "good" with need for improvement in certain areas.

1 History
2 Notable alumni
3 External links
4 References

[edit] History

Chiswick Community School comes from the amalgamation of three schools: ^[1]

Chiswick County School for Girls, which opened in 1916 in Burlington Lane.
Chiswick County School for Boys, which opened in 1926 adjacent to the girls school. These two combined in 1966 to become the co-educational Chiswick County Grammar School.
A "central" school which opened in 1927 in Staveley Road, becoming a Secondary modern school, then merging with the grammar school to become Chiswick Community School in 1968.