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The school was founded in 1874 in Wellesley Road just north of the centre of Croydon, and the first Headmistress was Dorinda Neligan. The school was evacuated to Bradden, Northamptonshire during World War II. The present building in Old Farleigh Road, Selsdon, South Croydon, Surrey was opened in 1966. It has been an independent girls school ...
In 1714, Tenison, by then Archbishop of Canterbury, founded a school for some "ten poor boys and ten poor girls" at North End, Croydon, [1]: 72 on a site which is now close to Croydon’s shopping centre. Just over 300 years and three sites later, it is thought that the School is the oldest surviving continuously mixed-sex school in the world. [2]
Cotelands with Park Hill Infants School in the background. The London Borough of Croydon is one of the boroughs in London with the most schools. They include primary schools (95), secondary schools (21) and four further education establishments. [1]
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She learned French and German and taught French, and Neligan was the founding head of Croydon High School in 1874, [3] where she remained for 27 years. [4] The school was backed by Maria Georgina Grey and was part of the Girls' Public Day School Company and it opened with 88 pupils. [5]
The boys' school opened with 23 pupils and numbers were never as high as in the girls’ school. This was probably due to the fact that there were more schools for boys in Croydon competing with St Andrew's. Just next door but one, in Church Street, was the Whitgift Poor School which went on to become Trinity School.
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Meridian High School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in the New Addington area of the London Borough of Croydon, England. [1] The School takes its pupils mainly from the Addington, New Addington, Forestdale, Selsdon and Shirley areas. The school converted to academy status on 1 June 2013. The school changed its ...