Leytonstone School

Community school in London, England

Leytonstone School

Address

Colworth Road Leytonstone London, E11 1JD England
Information
Type	Community school
Local authority	Waltham Forest
Department for Education URN	103101 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Headteacher	Julian Onyelekere
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	971
Website	http://www.leytonstoneschool.org/

Leytonstone School is a coeducational community secondary school located on Colworth Road in Leytonstone, London, England.

Admissions

The school formerly specialised in Business and Enterprise. The school numbers 971 students, as of the last Ofsted inspection of the school in 2021.

History

Originally a grammar school called Leyton County High School for Girls, the buildings at the junction of Colworth Road and Forest Road on the edge of Epping Forest were opened in 1911; girls were transferred there from the private Elson House Girls High School in Wallwood Road and from the mixed Leyton and Leytonstone high schools. The school was built on the site of Forest Farm and was designed in the Tudor style by William Jacques ARIBA, who was the architect for the Leyton Urban District Council.

In 1968, it was renamed Leyton Senior High School for Girls when it became a comprehensive school for 14- to 18-year-old girls. In 1986, it became a mixed comprehensive under a borough re-organisation of schools and changed its name to Leytonstone School.

It achieved Business and Enterprise specialist school status in 2007. Successful re-designation in 2008 enabled Leytonstone to retain this specialism and acquire a further specialism, 'Leadership Partners' in February 2009. It has also been designated an HPSS (high performing specialist school).

Alumni

Leyton County High School for Girls

Sonita Alleyne, OBE, FRSA, co-founder and former CEO of Somethin’ Else, a media production company, and Master of Jesus College, Cambridge. She is the first black master of any Oxbridge college
Dame Sharon Michele White DBE, Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership and former Chief Executive of the British media regulator Ofcom.

References

"Leytonstone School - Home".
"BBC News - Education League Tables: Leytonstone Business and Enterprise Specialist School". BBC News. 19 January 2006. Retrieved 27 June 2009.
"Ofsted: Leytonstone School". Retrieved 11 November 2022.
Powell, W R (ed.). "A History of the County of Essex: Volume 6 (London, 1973), pp. 233-240". www.british-history.ac.uk. British History Online. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
Osborne, Guy (May 2011). "Leytonstone Conservation Area" (PDF). walthamforest.gov.uk. London Borough of Waltham Forest. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
"BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs". BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs. BBC. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
The Gerald O’Connell Essay Competition in Economics 2023 (PDF), Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, retrieved 26 May 2024

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v t e Schools and colleges in Waltham Forest
Primary schools	Barclay Primary School Buxton School George Mitchell School
Secondary schools	Buxton School Chingford Foundation School Connaught School for Girls Frederick Bremer School George Mitchell School Heathcote School Highams Park School Holy Family Catholic School Kelmscott School Lammas School Leytonstone School Norlington School South Chingford Foundation School Walthamstow Academy Walthamstow School for Girls Willowfield School
Special schools	Joseph Clarke School Whitefield Schools
Private schools	Forest School Normanhurst School
FE & sixth form colleges	Big Creative Academy Leyton Sixth Form College Sir George Monoux College Waltham Forest College
Defunct schools	Aveling Park School Warwick School for Boys

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