Ensham School

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name = Ensham School


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closed = 1986
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street = Franciscan Road
city = Tooting
county = London
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postcode = SW17 8HE
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gender = Girls
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Ensham School was a girls' comprehensive school in Tooting, South London. During the 1930s it had been a mixed central school, however by the 1950s it had become a girls' secondary modern school. It was later made a comprehensive school.

The school closed when it was amalgamated with Furzedown Secondary School, a mixed comprehensive school, in 1986 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 the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

By the 1930s it was known as Ensham Central (Mixed) School.cite web |url=http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/records.asp?cat=074-lcc_12-1&cid=1-5-11 |title=Ensham Central (Mixed) School, Franciscan Road, S.W.17 – Minutes of Managers – ref. LCC/EO/PS/5/11 |accessdate=2007-12-08 |work=London County Council |publisher=Access to Archives] cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/72/a3291572.shtml |title=Two Adolescent Years – Chamberlain to Blitz – Part One |accessdate=2007-12-08 |year=2004 |work=WW2 People's War |publisher=BBC]

In the late 1950s the school was called Ensham County Secondary School.cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=7&CATID=-1002274 |title=Wandsworth: Ensham County Secondary School |accessdate=2007-12-08 |work=ED 109/9330 |publisher=The National Archives] 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 late 1970s.

Ensham was amalgamated with Furzedown Secondary School, a mixed comprehensive school, in 1986 to create the new Graveney School.cite book |title=Graveney School Prospectus for September 2008 |url=http://www.graveney.org/portal.aspx?mlmenuid=1024&TargetPortal=0&ApplicationID=121 |accessdate=2007-12-08 |year=2007 |publisher=Graveney School |pages=p. 5] Initially the school operated in both the former Ensham and Furzedown buildings, but eventually the Ensham site was closed as a school.

References

External links

* [http://www.graveney.org/ Graveney School]