The Norwood School
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| Established | 1958 |
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| Type | Community Comprehensive |
| Head Teacher | Mrs D Webster |
| Chair | Mr M Camley |
| Location |
Crown Dale West Norwood London SE19 3NY England Coordinates: 51°25′22″N 0°05′59″W / 51.4228°N 0.0996°W |
| Local authority | Lambeth |
| DfE URN | 100624 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | c.700 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Colours | purple black |
| Website | www |
The Norwood School is a co-educational community school at the south end of the London Borough of Lambeth, for girls and boys aged 11–18. The school is a specialist Arts College. From September 2007, the school admitted boys for the first time as it changed its status from a single sex girls' school to a co-educational community school. Its pupils travel from across the local education authority mainly from Brixton, Streatham and Vauxhall and a small proportion from neighbouring boroughs.
Norwood School for Girls was established in 1958 as a secondary school for girls aged between 11 and 16 by the London County Council. The school was originally based in Gipsy Road in West Norwood housed in a Victorian building built for the 1875 establishment of a London School Board school. It has always therefore been a quite separate institution from the Norwood School of Industry which dominated Elder Road, West Norwood during most of the 19th century.
Original school uniform colour was Maroon.
Became Norwood school for Girls and Boys in 2007.
Although the buildings on Gipsy Road were originally designed to hold a large number of pupils (up to 1000) the premises were deemed to be insufficient to house the two schools during the 1960s and it was agreed that another site would have to be found to at least accommodate the senior year groups.
Building began of a new Upper School on Crown Dale, near the junction with Elder Road in West Norwood, opposite Norwood Park, a relatively short distance from the school’s current site on Gipsy Road, which ran down another side of the same park. In 1971, on 21 April, years three to six moved to the brand new and much vaulted Upper School, whilst the first and second years remained in Gipsy Road in what was now called the Lower School, sharing this with a primary school, known as Norwood Park Primary School. The only piece of furniture allowed in the new building from the old was the kneehole desk from the Head’s room in Gipsy Road. The new site also had grounds that had been planted with a multitude of shrubs and flowers.
A very clear attempt was made at this time to impress upon students and commentators alike that the name of the school was Norwood or Norwood School, to reflect its comprehensive nature and move away from the secondary modern nomenclature. However, the colloquial references to Norwood Girls' or Norwood Girls' School were as old as the school and remained. Eventually, the first and second years moved to the site on Crown Dale in the late 1980s where the school remains to the present day.
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