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Type
  
Academy

DfE number
  
316/5400

Phone
  
+44 20 8471 2415

Gender
  
Mixed-sex education

Headteacher
  
Mr Andrew Seager

DfE URN
  
136978 Tables

Number of students
  
1,006

Location
  
Upton Lane Forest Gate Greater London E7 9PR England

Ofsted
  
Reports Pre-academy reports

Address
  
Grosvenor Rd, Forest Gate, London E7 8JA, UK

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Stratford School is a secondary academy school in Forest Gate in the London Borough of Newham, England. It has no sixth form.

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Location

It is situated on Upton Lane (A114). Nearby to the west is the Newham College of Further Education, and further west is the site of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Opposite the school is West Ham Park.

History

Prior to the introduction of comprehensive schools it was known as Stratford Grammar School, prior to which it was West Ham Secondary School.

It became a sixth-form-entry comprehensive in 1972.

The school officially gained academy status on 1 August 2011. It gets GCSE results well above average.

Tradition

Before 2005 the school uniform consisted of purple blazers, however it changed in September 2005 to black. Each year group has colour-coded badges. Each pupil is also in one of six houses, Curie, Noether, Euler, Crick, Hawking, Berners-Lee; each denoted by a different colour stripe on their tie.

Notable former pupils

West Ham Secondary School
  • Bryan Forbes, film star and director
  • Ron Pickering, Olympic team coach and TV sports presenter - formerly also sports master at the school in the 1950s
  • Stratford Grammar School
  • Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman since 2007 of the BBC Trust and Chief Executive from 1994-2001 of Birmingham City Council
  • Alan Baker, mathematician involved with number theory and Professor of Pure Mathematics from 1974-2006 at the University of Cambridge
  • Terry Smith, Chief of Collins Stewart since 2000 (became Tullett Prebon in 2006)
  • References

    Stratford School Wikipedia