{{more citations needed|date=December 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox school | name = Enfield County School for Girls | image = Enfield County School 03.JPG | image_size = | coordinates = {{coord|51.654167|-0.083611|type:edu_region:GB_dim:100|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | motto = Learning Today - Leading Tomorrow | established = 1909 | type = Community school | religious_affiliation = | president = | head_label = | head = Jennie Gumbrell | r_head_label = | r_head = | chair_label = Chair of Governors | chair = Keith Carrano | founder = | address = Holly Walk | city = Enfield | county = London | country = England | postal_code = EN2 6QG | local_authority = Enfield | ofsted = yes | urn = 102048 | staff = | enrolment = 1099 | gender = Girls | lower_age = 11 | upper_age = 18 | houses = | colours = Bottle Green {{color box|#006A4E}} | publication = | free_label1 = Former name | free_text1 = Enfield Chace School | free_label2 = | free_text2 = | free_label3 = | free_text3 = | website = http://www.enfieldcs.enfield.sch.uk/ }}
'''Enfield County School for Girls''' is a girls' comprehensive school that was created as Enfield Chace School in 1967, following the amalgamation of Enfield County School, which had been a girls' grammar school, with Chace Girls School, a secondary modern school. The amalgamated school readopted the name Enfield County School in 1987.
In 2018 the School adopted the name Enfield County School for Girls.
==Admissions== It is situated directly in the middle of Enfield, slightly to the north of the town centre, equidistant between the two railway stations, near St Andrew's Enfield.
==History== ===Former schools=== The original Enfield County School had been opened in 1909, becoming Enfield County Grammar School for Girls, which had around 850 girls. It was administered by Middlesex County Council Education Committee (Borough of Enfield). Chace Girls School had been formed in 1962 as a girls' secondary modern school from the senior girls department at Lavender School. Both were well-established girls' schools, each with a long tradition of high achievement and academic excellence, according to the current Headteacher, Ms. J. Gumbrell.<ref>[http://www.enfieldcs.enfield.sch.uk/head.shtml Headteacher] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070823031742/http://www.enfieldcs.enfield.sch.uk/head.shtml |date=2007-08-23 }} Retrieved 2007-11-20</ref>
===Comprehensive=== It became the comprehensive girls' Enfield Chace School in 1967, changing to its current name in 1987. In 2005 the school was designated a specialist school for languages.
===Former teachers=== * Jill Paton Walsh (''nee'' Bliss) CBE, author (taught English from 1959 to 1962 at the grammar school).<ref name="obituaryPW">{{cite news |last1=Maughan |first1=Shannon |date=20 October 2020 |title=Obituary: Jill Paton Walsh |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/84668-obituary-jill-paton-walsh.html |access-date=11 April 2026 |work=Publishers Weekly}}</ref>
==Campus== The buildings are a blend of solid Edwardian, post war and 1990s "design-build". The lower school in Rosemary Avenue, which was the former Chace Girls School, houses years 7, 8 and 9; at fourteen years of age students transfer to the upper school in Holly Walk (former grammar school), about a mile away in the centre of the old town of Enfield, London. After Enfield Court in Baker Street was purchased to accommodate the lower school of Enfield Grammar School in 1942, the first year pupils of the previous girls' grammar school, Enfield County School, shared it with the first year pupils of Enfield Grammar for a few years.
==Notable former pupils== ===Enfield County School===
* Keisha White, singer * Jaime Winstone, actress<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-04-10 |title=Rise of Ray's tough cookie |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/rise-of-rays-tough-cookie-7246300.html |access-date=2026-04-11 |website=The Standard |language=en}}</ref> * Lois Winstone,<ref>{{IMDb name|1092837|Lois Winstone}}</ref> actress * Ash Sarkar, journalist and activist<ref name="Fisher">{{Cite news |last=Fisher |first=Lucy |date=4 June 2018 |title=Meet Ash Sarkar, Britain's loudest Corbynista |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/meet-ash-sarkar-britains-loudest-corbynista-lcx6hwp9t |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731151325/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/meet-ash-sarkar-britains-loudest-corbynista-lcx6hwp9t |archive-date=31 July 2018 |access-date=26 August 2018 |work=The Times |id={{ProQuest|2049477240}}}}{{subscription required}}</ref> * Lola Olufemi,<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-10-27|title=I'm proud my daughter took on Cambridge for its 'colonial curriculum'|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/lola-olufemis-mother-im-proud-of-her-campaign-to-decolonise-english-literature-teaching-a3669491.html|access-date=2020-08-09|website=Evening Standard|language=en}}</ref> writer * Jasmine Blackborow, actress and voiceover artist
===Enfield County Grammar School for Girls=== * Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns (''née'' Clarke), Conservative politician, former shadow Chief Whip<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 December 2025 |orig-date=1 December 2007 |title=Anelay of St Johns, Baroness, (Joyce Anne Anelay) |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-5539?rskey=3fEHQ6&result=1 |url-access=subscription |access-date=11 April 2026 |website=Who's Who |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U5539}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=May 2026|reason=Who's Who is a self-published source and considered generally unreliable. See WP:RSPS }} * Olive Banks (''née'' Davies), historian of feminism<ref>{{Cite news |last=Szreter |first=Simon |date=2006-12-12 |title=Olive Banks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/dec/12/guardianobituaries.obituaries1 |access-date=2026-04-11 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> * Geraldine McCaughrean, author<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 December 2025 |orig-date=1 December 2007 |title=McCaughrean, Geraldine Margaret |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/display/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-25368?rskey=hj2vTq&result=1 |url-access=subscription |access-date=11 April 2026 |website=Who's Who |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U25368}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=May 2026|reason=Who's Who is a self-published source and considered generally unreliable. See WP:RSPS }} * Dame Helen Metcalf (''née'' Pitt), former headteacher from 1998 to 2001 of Chiswick Community School, and former Islington Labour councillor{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}} * Frances Perry (''née'' Everett) MBE, horticulture author and broadcaster, and wife of Roy Hay (horticulturist){{Citation needed|date=April 2026}} * Nancy Tait, health campaigner<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/feb/23/nancy-tait|title=Obituary: Nancy Tait|date=23 February 2009}}</ref> * Brenda Bruce actress{{Citation needed|date=April 2026}}
==See also== * Chace Community School, coeducational (former boys' - Chace School) school in Enfield on ''Churchbury Lane'' * Enfield Grammar School, a school that merged with Chace Boys' School.
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== *''Onward ever: the story of Enfield County School for Girls, 1909-1967'' by Joan Hinchcliffe Hart, 1999
==External links== * [http://www.enfieldcs.enfield.sch.uk/ Enfield County School official site] * [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=26961 A detailed history of Education in Enfield at British History Online] * [http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/jewish/growing_up/grete_rudkin_5.htm Moving Here - The immigration story of Grete Rudkin (born Glauber), who attended Enfield County School]
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