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'''Ensham School''' was a girls' comprehensive school in Tooting, South London. During the 1930s, it was a mixed central school. By the 1950s, it had become a girls' secondary modern school. It was later made a comprehensive school.
The school closed when it was amalgamated in 1986 with Furzedown Secondary School, a mixed comprehensive school, to create the new Graveney School on the former Furzedown Secondary School site.
==History== Ensham School was constructed during the period of expansion of Tooting at turn of the 20th century.
By the 1930s, it was known as Ensham Central (Mixed) School.<ref name="central">{{cite web |url=http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/records.asp?cat=074-lcc_12-1&cid=1-5-11 |title=Ensham Central (Mixed) School, Franciscan Road, S.W.17 – Minutes of Managers – ref. LCC/EO/PS/5/11 |accessdate=2007-12-08 |work=London County Council |publisher=Access to Archives}}</ref><ref name="bbc">{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/72/a3291572.shtml |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130419220328/http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/72/a3291572.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 April 2013 |title=Two Adolescent Years – Chamberlain to Blitz – Part One |accessdate=2007-12-08 |year=2004 |work=WW2 People's War |publisher=BBC}}</ref> In the late 1950s, the school was called Ensham County Secondary School.<ref name="nationalarchives">{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=7&CATID=-1002274 |title=Wandsworth: Ensham County Secondary School |accessdate=2007-12-08 |work=ED 109/9330 |publisher=The National Archives}}</ref> It later became Ensham Secondary School.
In the 1930s, the school was a mixed central school, becoming a girls' secondary modern school by the 1950s and a girls' comprehensive school by the early 1960s.
In 1986, Ensham was amalgamated with Furzedown Secondary School, a mixed comprehensive school, to create the new Graveney School.<ref name="prospectus">{{cite book |title=Graveney School [Prospectus] for September 2008 |url=http://www.graveney.org/portal.aspx?mlmenuid=1024&TargetPortal=0&ApplicationID=121 |accessdate=2007-12-08 |year=2007 |publisher=Graveney School |pages=5 }}{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Initially the school operated in both the former Ensham and Furzedown buildings, but eventually the Ensham site was closed.
==Notable former pupils== * Jean Scrivens, 100m runner, won the silver in the 4x100m relay at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics
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==External links== * [http://www.graveney.org/ Graveney School]
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Category:Defunct schools in the London Borough of Wandsworth Category:Girls' schools in London Category:Educational institutions established in 1905 Category:1905 establishments in England Category:Educational institutions disestablished in 1986 Category:1986 disestablishments in England