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Villiers High School - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 51°30′35″N 0°22′23″W / 51.5097°N 0.3731°W

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Villiers High School
Address

Boyd Avenue Southall , Greater London England
Coordinates	51°30′35″N 0°22′23″W / 51.5097°N 0.3731°W / 51.5097; -0.3731
Information
Type	Secondary school
Established	1907
Local authority	Ealing
Department for Education URN	101928 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Christopher Richards
Staff	180
Gender	coeducational
Age	11 to 18^[1]
Enrolment	1,498 (2024)
Website	http://www.villiers.ealing.sch.uk/

Villiers High School is a co-educational 11–18 school and sixth form in the Southall area of the west London borough of Ealing. The school is situated in Boyd Avenue, in the heart of Southall. Christopher Richards was appointed Headteacher in September 2023. as of 2022 it has around 1,500 pupils on roll, 250 of whom are in the sixth form.^[1]

The local authority, the London Borough of Ealing, administers the Co-ordinated High School Admissions Scheme, for Villiers High School.

History

The school first opened as Southall County School in 1907. It changed its name to Southall Grammar in 1945. In 1963 the school merged with Southall College of Technology (a boys' technical school, which had been located in Beaconsfield Road) and was renamed Southall Grammar Technical School. The name was changed to Villiers High School in 1974. The sixth-form opened in 2009.

Ofsted

After inspections which rated the school as Good with Outstanding features in 2007 and 'Satisfactory in 2010, the school was rated Good in all areas in spring 2015 following an Ofsted inspection.^[1]^[2] The report found the school is "rapidly improving" under "very strong" leadership of the senior leadership team.^[1]

The school was described as "a harmonious community characterised by mutual respect and high aspirations".^[1]

Notable teaching staff

In 2008, David Onllwyn Jones, an assistant head teacher at the school, was made Member of the Order of the British Empire for his services to education.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Notable former pupils

Imran Qayyum, cricketer for Kent County Cricket Club

Southall Grammar Technical School

Alan Charles, Derbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2012 to 2016
Prof John Woodhouse FRS, Professor of Geophysics from 1990 to 2014 at the University of Oxford, and Head from 2000 to 2003 and 2011 to 2012 of the Department of Earth Sciences; winner of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2010, the Inge Lehmann Medal in 2001, and the James B. Macelwane Medal in 1984

Southall Grammar School

Ray Dorset, singer with Mungo Jerry
Doug Hayward, tailor
Ronald Peter Nash CMG LVO, High Commissioner to Trinidad and Tobago from 2004 to 2007, and Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003
Allan Segal, documentary television film-maker for World in Action

Southall County School

Barry Foster (actor), known in the early 1970s for Thames Television's Van der Valk
Sir Leslie Murphy, chairman from 1977 to 1979 of the National Enterprise Board
Lionel Robbins, Baron Robbins of Clare Market CH CB, economist at the LSE who wrote An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science; his famous Robbins Report led to expansion of universities in the 1960s, from the former Colleges of Technology, and the creation of the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA, which awarded degrees to polytechnics)
Sydney Templeman, Baron Templeman, one of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary from 1982 to 1994, President from 1974 to 1976 of the Senate of the Inns of Court and the Bar (now the Bar Standards Board)
Elsie Whetnall, philosopher

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Villiers High School, Ofsted. Published 19 May 2015.
^ Villiers High School, Ofsted. Published 17 May 2013.
^ Thomas, Jessica (6 January 2009). "Chiswick honoured for food, the arts, sport and learning". The Hounslow Chronicle. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
^ "New Year list honours 7/7 heroes". BBC News. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
^ Gates, James (2 January 2009). "Ealing residents scoop New Year's Honours". Ealing Gazette. Retrieved 13 March 2010.

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