Richmond County School
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| Motto | To Make Our Best Better |
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| Established | 1895 Refounded as an academy in 2010 |
| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Paul Mundy-Castle |
| Location |
SW14 8RG England 51°27′45″N 0°15′34″W / 51.4625°N 0.2595°WCoordinates: 51°27′45″N 0°15′34″W / 51.4625°N 0.2595°W |
| Local authority | Richmond upon Thames |
| DfE URN | 136208 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 761 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Website | Richmond Park Academy Homepage |
| Established | 2 July 1895 |
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| Closed | 1939 (amalgamated with East Sheen County Grammar School) |
| Location |
Richmond Greater London England |
| Gender | mixed |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| coordinates | 51°28′00″N 0°17′49″W / 51.4666°N 0.2969°W |
| Motto | Enrich the time to come |
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| Established | 1939 (1957 under this name) |
| Closed | 1973 |
| Type | Grammar |
| Headmaster | G. P. Rawlings |
| Location |
Park Avenue Richmond Greater London SW14 England |
| Local authority | Richmond upon Thames |
| Gender | Boys |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Fife, Hood, Temple, York |
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| Motto | Enrich the Time to Come |
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| Established | 1977 |
| Closed | 2010 |
| Type | Comprehensive |
| Headteacher | Lesley Kirby |
| Chair | Tina Jones |
| Location |
Park Avenue East Sheen Greater London SW14 8RG England |
| Local authority | Richmond Upon Thames |
| DfE URN | 102927 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 815 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Houses | Foxes, Bulldogs, Dragons & Lions |
| Colours | Red, Blue, Green & Yellow |
| Website | Shene School Homepage |
Richmond Park Academy is an academy status secondary school in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is part of the Academies Enterprise Trust Academy chain.
Richmond Park Academy was formed in 2010 when academy status was granted to the predecessor Shene School. The academy is led by Paul Mundy-Castle, and is managed by the Academies Enterprise Trust. In 2011 the academy secured almost £10 million of government funding for building improvements. Renovation and new building work was finished in 2015, with an official opening by Dame Jacqueline Wilson.
Richmond Park Academy is the most recent in a succession of schools that have occupied the location on Park Avenue and Hertford Avenue, East Sheen.
In the latter part of the nineteenth century there was no reasonable secondary education in Barnes and Richmond for miles around except for those who could afford private tuition or send their children many miles to school. In the most populous areas of Surrey, (e.g. Sutton, Wimbledon and Richmond) parents were for the most part obliged to be content to give their children an Elementary education. Richmond County was to be one of a series of new Technical Buildings erected or being erected by the County Council in the seven principal towns of the county. The school was opened on 2 July 1895 on land in Kew Road, Richmond and was fee paying. The buildings occupied a prominent site on the Kew Road at the corner of Selwyn Avenue. This building housed both the Technical Institute and secondary school. Pupils residing in Surrey paid £6 per year, whilst those from outside the county paid £10. The school began with a headmaster and five assistant masters, with visiting staff for the teaching of Art, Singing, French and German. Originally there were 50 boys between 11 and 16 and by 1901, when the new south wing was added, numbers had increased. An extension comprising an assembly hall, four classrooms a gymnasium/drill hall and two workshops was opened in 1902. The first headmaster, A E Buckhurst, was succeeded in 1912 by T W Beasley who continued in office until the school's amalgamation with East Sheen County School for Boys in 1939. When the school merged with East Sheen County School for Boys in 1939 the school moved out of the Kew Road premises leaving the Technical Institute as sole occupants of the Kew Road site. The Technical Institute continued up to the Second World War when it was put on a war-time basis and used as an A.R.P and ambulance depot. It was revived as the Technical Institute and School of Art for Richmond and Barnes in 1947 and in 1954 renamed as The Richmond Institute of Further Education. In 1970 it became the Richmond Adult College and in 1978 transferred to the Parkshot site, vacant with the closure of Richmond County School for Girls and as the Richmond Adult & Community College remains at that site.
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