Southgate School
| Established | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Type | Community school |
| Headteacher | Martin Lavelle |
| Location |
Sussex Way Oakwood Greater London, EN4 0BL England Coordinates: 51°38′49″N 0°08′27″W / 51.6469°N 0.1408°W |
| Local authority | Enfield |
| DfE number | 308/4029 |
| DfE URN | 102047 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 1519 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Former name | Southgate County Grammar School |
| Website | Southgate School |
Southgate School is a state comprehensive secondary school in the London Borough of Enfield. It has approximately 1574 pupils.
The school is situated just east of the Cat Hill roundabout of the A111 and A110, between Cockfosters and Oakwood tube stations. The Trent Park campus of Middlesex University is nearby to the north, on the northern fringe of Greater London's conurbation. Middlesex University has its Cat Hill campus nearby to the east. Although once historically in Southgate, the school is now in the parish of St Thomas, Oakwood, on the boundary with Cockfosters to the west, and on the western edge of Enfield borough, 500 metres east of the Barnet boundary.
Founded in 1907 as Southgate County School, the school was originally housed within Broomfield House, Palmers Green. The school subsequently moved to Fox Lane (also in Palmers Green). In 1960, the Fox Lane site was closed and a new site, in Sussex Way, Cockfosters, was purchased.
In 1967, the school merged with Oakwood Secondary Modern School which was located in Chase Road, Southgate. The Chase Road site became the lower school, for children in their first three years of secondary education (currently referred to as years 7, 8 and 9).
In 1991, the Lower School also moved to the Sussex Way site, with the Chase Road site being sold partly for housing and partly to a private school.
The school was awarded Specialist Science Status in September 2004, which it gained through raising £50,000 and being provided with the necessary funding for a science specialist school. It used the funding to generally improve science facilities purchasing new equipment and renewing laboratories as well as building a hanging laboratory in the middle of the East Wing building (the original Upper School building). In the Summer of 2007 Southgate celebrated its centenary.
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