Enfield County School

Enfield County is a girls' comprehensive school which was once created as Enfield Chace School in 1967, following the amalgamation of Enfield County School, which had been a girls' grammar school, with Chace Girls School, a secondary modern school. The amalgamated school readopted the name Enfield County School in 1987.

Enfield County School for Girls
Address
Holly Walk

Enfield
,
London
,
EN2 6QG

England
Coordinates51°39′15″N 0°05′01″W
Information
TypeCommunity school
MottoLearning Today - Leading Tomorrow
Established1909
Local authorityEnfield
Department for Education URN102048 Tables
OfstedReports
Chair of GovernorsKeith Carrano
Head teacherJennie Gumbrell
GenderGirls
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1099
Colour(s)Bottle Green
Former nameEnfield Chace School
Websitehttp://www.enfieldcs.enfield.sch.uk/

In 2018 the School adopted the name Enfield County School for Girls.

Admissions

It is situated directly in the middle of Enfield, slightly to the north of the town centre, equidistant between the two railway stations, near St Andrew's Enfield.

History

Former schools

The original Enfield County School had been opened in 1909, becoming Enfield County Grammar School for Girls, which had around 850 girls. It was administered by Middlesex County Council Education Committee (Borough of Enfield). Chace Girls School had been formed in 1962 as a girls' secondary modern school from the senior girls department at Lavender School. Both were well-established girls' schools, each with a long tradition of high achievement and academic excellence, according to the current Headteacher, Ms. J. Gumbrell.[1]

Comprehensive

It became the comprehensive girls' Enfield Chace School in 1967, changing to its current name in 1987. In 2005 the school was designated a specialist school for languages.

Former teachers
  • Jill Paton Walsh (nee Bliss) CBE, author (taught English from 1959-62 at the grammar school)

Campus

The buildings are a blend of solid Edwardian, post war and 1990s "design-build". The lower school in Rosemary Avenue, which was the former Chace Girls School, houses years 7, 8 and 9; at fourteen years of age students transfer to the upper school in Holly Walk (former grammar school), about a mile away in the centre of the old town of Enfield, London. After Enfield Court in Baker Street was purchased to accommodate the lower school of Enfield Grammar School in 1942, the first year pupils of the previous girls' grammar school, Enfield County School, shared it with the first year pupils of Enfield Grammar for a few years.

Traditions

At first, the school motto, which was incorporated in the school badge, was Onward Ever, which had previously been the motto of the grammar school in the amalgamation. This was later changed to Learning: it's at the heart of everything we do.

Notable former pupils

Enfield County School

Enfield County Grammar School for Girls

See also
  • Chace Community School, coeducational (former boys' - Chace School) school in Enfield on Churchbury Lane
  • Enfield Grammar School, a school that merged with Chace Boys' School but remains to be a selective boys' grammar school.

References
  1. Headteacher Archived 2007-08-23 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 2007-11-20
  2. Lois Winstone at IMDb
  3. "I'm proud my daughter took on Cambridge for its 'colonial curriculum'". Evening Standard. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  4. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/feb/23/nancy-tait

Further reading
  • Onward ever: the story of Enfield County School for Girls, 1909-1967 by Joan Hinchcliffe Hart, 1999
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