Ernest Bevin College

The school was named after Ernest Bevin (1881–1951), a British labour leader and politician. It was formed through merging the two adjacent schools of Bec Grammar and Hillcroft Secondary Modern in 1971. The school was briefly named Bec-Hillcroft until 1971, at which point it became Ernest Bevin School and eventually in 1996 Ernest Bevin College.

Hillcroft Secondary School, Bec-Hillcroft and Ernest Bevin School ran under the aegis of the Inner London Education Authority until it was abolished by the Education Reform Act 1988. Since then the school has been run by the London Borough of Wandsworth.[4]

Ernest Bevin College has been a specialist college for Sport since 2000.[5] Because of improvement in academic achievement, the college was offered a second specialism in Mathematics and Computing in 2004.[5]

Ernest Bevin College was one of the first schools to receive Healthy Schools status.

The Gifted and Talented programme at the college caters for the top 5-10% of the pupils in each year who are identified as having either all round academic ability or specific talents in areas such as sport, music, art and technology.

Sports the school currently participates in, or facilitates students’ participation in, include: Football, Rugby, Cricket, Swimming, Judo, Athletics, Basketball, Tennis, Table tennis, and Volleyball.

Ernest Bevin has won many tournaments in volleyball – most notably so in recent years, the U16 Boys Nationals Title (2008). They were succeeded by Newcastle (Staffs) Volleyball Club in 2009.

Judo is one of the four focus sports at Ernest Bevin College and students are offered many opportunities to participate in the sport.[6] The Judo team is licensed by British Judo Association and is called Ernest Bevin Phoenix Judo Club.[7]

Ernest Bevin College and Sixth Form Centre has received a number of awards. These include recognition of its specialist schools status and Leading Edge status. Ernest Bevin College was the first secondary school in Wandsworth to be awarded the nationally recognised ‘Healthy Schools Status’ in recognition of its whole school/whole child approach to health. Ernest Bevin College has been awarded the London Excellence Work Experience Award by Education Business Partnership. Ernest Bevin College was awarded the Football Association’s Charter Standard School’s award which is a core component of the FA’s Football Development programme Ernest Bevin College was awarded Sportsmark Gold in recognition of "outstanding physical education and sports provision" by Sport England.

• Jermaine Allen, Professional NFL running back
• Eric Boateng, College basketball player
• Mike Bowron, Commissioner for City of London Police
• Sean Davis, Professional footballer
• Ortis Deley, Television presenter, radio DJ and actor
• Marvin Elliott, Professional footballer
• Winston Gordon, Judo competitor
• Lennie James, Actor and playwright
• Joe Joyce, Boxer and Olympic medalist
• Sadiq Khan, Labour MP for Tooting and Mayor of London.
• Alan Knight , Professional footballer goalkeeper Portsmouth.
• Mad Professor, Music producer
• Tony Meo, Professional snooker player
• Rayyan Adam, Professional footballer
• Jimmy White, Professional snooker player
• Harris J, British singer with a platinum selling album and a single.
• Ian Lawrence, British over 40 and over 50 Cycle Speedway Champion.
• Lee R Lawrence, British over 50 Cycle Speedway Champion.

• Official website
• Ofsted reports – Ernest Bevin College (archive)