The Urswick School
The Urswick School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in the Hackney Central area of the London Borough of Hackney, London.[1]
| The Urswick School | |
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 The Urswick School Logo | |
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Paragon Road , E9 6NR | |
| Coordinates | 51.5445°N 0.0527°W |
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| Type | Voluntary aided school |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Church of England |
| Established | 1520 |
| Local authority | Hackney |
| Department for Education URN | 100284 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Headteacher | Mr Richard Brown |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 19 |
| Website | http://www.theurswickschool.co.uk/ |
The school is named after Revd Christopher Urswick, Rector of Hackney from 1502 to 1522, and a close friend of King Henry VII and his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort,[2] a great benefactress of learning.
History
Established in 1520 as Hackney Free School, in 1722, it joined with a parochial charity school to form Hackney Free and Parochial School. The school moved to its present location after 1856., and was significantly rebuilt and expanded, being renamed in 2011 as The Urswick School.[2]
Present-day
A voluntary aided school administered by Hackney London Borough Council and the Church of England Diocese of London, Urswick School offers GCSEs, BTECs and ASDAN awards as programmes of study for pupils, and the sixth form can study a range of A-levels and further BTECs and ASDAN awards.[3]
In 2021, The Guardian reported that the Urswick School is "the most disadvantaged secondary school in London and the fifth most disadvantaged in England".[4]
References
- "Home - The Urswick School". theurswickschool.co.uk.
- "The History of the School". theurswickschool.co.uk.
- "Subjects". theurswickschool.co.uk.
- Weale, Sally (8 January 2021). "Few laptops, nowhere to work: remote learning at a deprived Hackney school". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
