Established 1959 Head Teacher Stephen Davis DfE URN 136341 Tables Founded 1959 | Type Academy DfE number 313/4027 Phone +44 20 8572 1936 Number of students 1,389 | |
Location Lampton Avenue
Hounslow
TW3 4EP
England Address Lampton Ave, Hounslow TW3 4EP, UK Similar Cranford Community College, The Heathland Schoo, Heston Community School, Isleworth & Syon School, Chiswick School Profiles | ||
Lampton School is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Hounslow, west London, England.
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Lampton is a Leading Edge school, and is a training school which currently has around 1,358 students on roll. Lampton borders the A4 (Great West Road) in Hounslow, and is next to Lampton Park and Hounslow Civic Centre. This is about one mile west of Spring Grove, and a mile south of the M4 near Heston. Osterley Park is a mile to the north-east. Its ethnic mix reflects that of the local area, with most students being of Indian subcontinental heritage. The school has a wide range of ethnicities, including white British, and Polish, and around 30% of students receive free school meals.
Lampton also offers a 6th Form for pupils aged 16 and over, which takes the majority of its intake from Lampton GCSE students, but is also open to applicants from outside the school. The headteacher is Stephen Davis. He was preceded by Sue John, also known as Dame Susan Elizabeth John, who was knighted in 2012 for her service to education.
History
Lampton School used to be known as Spring Grove Grammar School, a grammar school before being converted to a comprehensive. The school gained its Humanities Specialist status in 2003, a designation which enabled the building of the Language and Learning Zone (LLZ), a multi-media and Information and communication technologies suite situated at the western end of the Spring Grove building.
Academic performance
The last OFSTED inspection, in 2012, found the school to be "outstanding". In 2009 Ofsted highlighted Lampton as one of 12 outstanding schools serving disadvantaged communities.
The school's GCSE results are broadly average. The school has in recent years, achieved above average results at both GCSE and A-Level.
Prime Minister's Global Fellowship
The school has a good record of students attaining places on the Prime Minister's Global Fellowship programme. The school achieved its first student in the inaugural year of the programme, 2008, and in 2009 had two more successful applicants.