Gosford Hill School

Gosford Hill School is a co-educational secondary school with academy status in the village of Kidlington in Oxfordshire, England.

Gosford Hill School
Address
Oxford Road

Gosford
,
Oxfordshire
,
OX5 2NT

Coordinates51.81624°N 1.27913°W / 51.81624; -1.27913
Information
TypeAcademy
Established1932
Local authorityOxfordshire
SpecialistMaths and Computing
Department for Education URN138897 Tables
Head teacherMr Nigel Sellars
Staff90
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment900
HousesCherwell, Evenlode, Thames, Windrush
Websitehttp://www.gosford-hill.oxon.sch.uk/

History

The school, originally called the Kidlington Church of England Central School, was built to teach children over the age of 11 whose numbers had grown during the 1920s to the point where the National School in the village was not able to accommodate them. By combining the number of over-11s from Kidlington with those from the church schools in the surrounding villages of Begbroke, Cassington, Hampton Poyle, Islip, Noke, Oddington, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Thrupp and Yarnton a sufficient number was achieved to justify the cost of a new school.

The first Headteacher, when the school opened on 7 September 1932, was Herbert Chapman who had been the head of the National School[1]

The original buildings, designed by R Fielding Dodd, ARIBA and GT Gardner consisted of 4 classrooms and a Practical Studies Centre. Two more classrooms were added in 1934. The site of 4 acres (16,000 m2) had been part of Gosford Hill Farm, which itself had been turned into Oxford Zoological Gardens by Frank Gray by the time the school was built.

On 1 November 2012 the school completed its transition to an academy.

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References

  1. Tossell, T. Gosford Hill School 1932 - 2007 pp 13-14.
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