Tottenham County School
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| Established | Earliest predecessor: 1884 |
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| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Dame Joan McVittie BSc (Hons), MA Ed, NPQH |
| Chair | Andre Davies |
| Location |
White Hart Lane Wood Green London N22 5QJ England 51°36′13″N 0°06′03″W / 51.6035°N 0.1009°WCoordinates: 51°36′13″N 0°06′03″W / 51.6035°N 0.1009°W |
| DfE number | 309/4034 |
| DfE URN | 137745 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | c. 900 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Website | Woodside High School |
Woodside High School is now an academy located in the Wood Green area of the London Borough of Haringey, England. Having just over 800 students, Mrs McVitte has made a dramatic improvement to the school since being the new headteacher.
In September 2006, the school was renamed from 'White Hart Lane secondary school' to 'Woodside High School'. Having had such a bad reputation, McVitte decided to give the school a 'make-over' giving the school new uniforms as well as a new reputation. The school is now one of the best schools in Haringey, being 3rd in the Haringey league tables and in the top 25 of the most improved schools in the country. It carries a new reputation that is highly valued by the students. The school was built in 1962.
The history of Woodside High School can be traced back through a number of renamings and mergers since its first predecessor schools were founded in 1884. In 1884 separate boys' and girls' Higher Grade schools were founded in Wood Green but by 1898 had become overcrowded and in 1899 merged when they both moved into a new building in Bounds Green Road. Wood Green Higher Grade school, as it was called, was taken over by the Middlesex education committee in 1921, closed and then reopened as Trinity county grammar school. Technical education, started in 1892 under the Technical Instruction Act of 1889, developed quickly after the opening of Tottenham Polytechnic in 1897.
Wood Green county school was established by Middlesex County Council in Glendale Avenue as a mixed grammar school in 1910 and was later renamed Glendale county school. It amalgamated with Trinity county grammar to form Wood Green county grammar school in 1962 and then moved to White Hart Lane, leaving the Glendale Avenue site for Woodside school whilst Trinity county grammar's premises were taken over by the newly established Parkwood school. St. Thomas More upper school took over the Glendale Avenue site in 1967 and at the same time Wood Green county grammar became Wood Green comprehensive school. The new Wood Green comprehensive school also absorbed boys from Woodside school and some girls from Parkwood school.
In Tottenham in 1901, Tottenham County School was founded at Grove House in anticipation of the Education Act 1902. It was the first school that offered an alternative to the Tottenham Grammar School in the area and was also the first co-educational school of its kind in Middlesex. It originally shared Grove House with Tottenham polytechnic but in 1913 moved into a new building on the Green. Like Tottenham high school for girls, established in 1885, it was modelled on the grammar school and these three schools along with the Roman Catholic St. Ignatius's college, provided for Tottenham's educational needs. Tottenham County School in 1963 moved to new buildings at Selby Road, Devonshire Hill, next to the playing fields. In 1967, Tottenham county school premises were taken over by Tottenham school and by 1972 a sixth-form centre and a sports hall had been added.
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