Type Community school DfE number 316/4025 Ofsted Reports Number of students 1,322 | Headteacher Anthony Wilson DfE URN 102778 Tables Phone +44 20 8471 3311 Staff 300 | |
Location St Mary's RoadPlaistowGreater LondonE13 9AEEngland, UK Similar Brampton Manor Academy, Rokeby School, Langdon Academy, Little Ilford School, Kingsford Community School Profiles | ||
Lister Community School is a non-selective, mixed, 11-16 comprehensive secondary school, located at St Mary’s Road, Plaistow, Newham, London.
In November 2008, an Ofsted inspection rated the school "Good with outstanding features". This was downgraded to "Satisfactory" following an inspection in 2012. but upgraded again to "Good" in the recent inspection in November 2013, with 64% of lessons inspected rated as "good" or "outstanding" and none "inadequate".
The current headteacher of the school, since September 2011, is Anthony Wilson.
The school uses vertical tutoring to integrate the community of students across the range of ages and year groups.
It is one of a few schools in Newham that provides specialist British sign language interpreters for students who have hearing impairments.
Lister Community School also is one of the most best and improved schools in the whole Great Britain. HM The Queen is scheduled to visit Lister on the 3rd March 2016.
History
The school was founded by West Ham Council in 1921 as Livingstone Day Continuation Institute, in Balaam Street Congregational schoolroom. It relocated a few times, was briefly absorbed into North West Ham Technical School after World War II, and was successively renamed as Lister Day-Continuation Institute (1933), Lister Technical School (1956), Lister Comprehensive (1972) and finally Lister Community School. Purpose-built facilities for the school were completed in the 1990s.
In 2003, pupils staged a walk-out in protest against the invasion of Iraq.
In 2005 Lister pupils won a poetry slam, and the school magazine Carbolic (named in honour of the school's namesake, local surgeon Joseph Lister) gained high praise from Benjamin Zephaniah and Michael Rosen.
The school moved into brand new premises completed in 2010 at a cost of £25 million under the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme.