Fortismere School
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| Established | 1983 (William Grimshaw in 1902) |
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| Type | Foundation school |
| Headteacher | Ms H Glass |
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Tetherdown (South Wing), Creighton Avenue (North Wing) Muswell Hill London, England N10 1NS (South Wing) N10 1NE (North Wing) United Kingdom Coordinates: 51°35′34″N 0°09′03″W / 51.59285°N 0.15095°W |
| Local authority | Haringey |
| DfE number | 309/4032 |
| DfE URN | 102156 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1,750 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Colours | blue, green |
| Website | www |
Fortismere School is a comprehensive school in North London. In 2014 it was ranked in The Sunday Times as the 11th best comprehensive school in the country, and was judged as Outstanding in its most recent Ofsted inspection (2011). It is a mixed, community foundation secondary school situated just off the A504 in Muswell Hill. It falls under the London Borough of Haringey Local Education Authority and is the highest performing comprehensive school in the borough. The school occupies extensive grounds a little west of the centre of Muswell Hill, and consists of two main sites, North Wing and South Wing, which are separated by playing fields and tennis courts. There are main entrances in Twyford Avenue (South Wing), Tetherdown (South Wing), and Creighton Avenue (North Wing).
The first school on the site was Tollington School, a private boys' school.
After World War II, this became a state grammar school and the attached preparatory school became Tetherdown Primary School (this moved from the site in 1958 when it exchanged premises with the girls' grammar school). In 1958 the current building was erected and Tollington High School for Girls and Tollington Grammar School for Boys merged to become Tollington Grammar School (co-ed). In the 1950s William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School opened on an adjoining site in Creighton Avenue.
With the introduction of comprehensive education in Haringey in 1967, Tollington Grammar School and William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School were merged to form Creighton School on Creighton Avenue. Sir William Grimshaw was a local councillor. Charles Loades, head of William Grimshaw since 1958, became head, and remained until his retirement in 1974.
In the early 1970s, Creighton School became the centrepiece of a Labour Party educational experiment. Situated in the middle class largely white suburb of Muswell Hill it was decided to integrate a large number of Afro-Caribbean and other ethnic minority children into the school from distant parts of the borough in an attempt to maximise education choice and social interaction - a policy based heavily on the then United States system of desegregation busing. In 1975, before this new intake had worked through the school, around one third of the Sixth Form was either a first-generation immigrant, or had a surname of Cypriot or Asian origin. The head who was charged with overseeing this experiment was Molly Hattersley, the wife of Labour Party minister Roy Hattersley.
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