Chiswick Community School is located in the borough of Hounslow in West London and currently has 1241 students as well as 209 Sixth Form students, which the school also accommodates. The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... A website (alternatively, Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a... Hounslow is the principal town of the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. ...

CCS is located beside Chiswick House and it takes a picture of the house as its logo. Most of the buildings are new but the North Eastern block still remains from when it was intended to be an all girls school. Before the school was built a farm was on the site. Due to its location it has a very wide catchment area taking pupils from the borough of Hounslow as well as Kensington and Chelsea, Richmond, Hammersmith and Fulham and Ealing. Chiswick House Chiswick House is a Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, London W4, England. ... The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea is a London borough in the west side of inner London, created in 1965 from the former boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea. ... Richmond is a suburb and the principal settlement of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London, England. ... The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a west London borough. ... Ealing is a town in the London Borough of Ealing. ...

CCS is a very multicutural school. It has students of African, Middle Eastern, Caribbean, European and British descent. Due to this it has double the national average of students for whom English is a second language. Over 1/4 of the school's pupil are deemed to have special needs. Due to the fact there are several prominent all girls schools in the local area, Chiswick Community School's intake is roughly 60% male.

In its last Ofsted report, in 2004, the school was deemed "good" with need for improvement in certain areas. Ofsted logo The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial government department, established in 1993 under the Education (Schools) Act 1992. ...

History

Chiswick Community School comes from the amalagation of three schools: ^[1]

• Chiswick County School for Girls, which opened in 1916 in Burlington Lane.
• Chiswick County School for Boys, which opened in 1926 adjacent to the girls school. These two combined in 1966 to become the co-educational Chiswick County Grammar School.
• A "central" school which opened in 1927 in Staveley Road, becoming a Secondary modern school, then merging with the grammar school to become Chiswick Community School in 1968.

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Notable alumni

• Carlton Cole - footballer
• Phil Collins - singer/song writer
• Charlotte Hatherley - musician
• Fola Onibuje - footballer

Carlton Cole (born November 12, 1983 in Croydon, London, England) is a football player who currently plays for West Ham United. ... Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30, 1951 in Chiswick, London) is an English rock and pop musician. ... Charlotte Franklin Hatherley (born June 20, 1979) is an English singer and guitarist. ... Fola Onibuje is a Nigerian football player, currently playing for Nationwide Conference team Cambridge United F.C.. At 66 Fola is a giant striker with a real presence on the football pitch. ...

External links

• Offical site
• Ofsted report, 2004

References