Davison High School is a girls'
Church of England
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secondary school
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serving pupils aged 11 to 16 in
Worthing
Worthing () is a seaside town in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester. With a population of 111,400 and an area of , the borough is the second largest component of the Brighton and Hov ...
,
West Sussex
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,
England
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. In its last inspection the school was judged by
OFSTED
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as Good. The school accommodates around 1080 girls across five year groups.
The original Davison School was a boys' school, opened on Chapel Road in 1812 and named after the Reverend William Davison, the first chaplain of
St Paul's Church, Worthing. The school moved to its current site off Selborne Road in 1960.
Worthing – Education , British History Online
/ref> The culvert
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ed Teville Stream
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Watercourse
The Teville Stream rises at allotments in Tarring, W ...
flows under the school's playing fields.
The school is the home of the Davison Worthing Youth Concert Band which gives opportunities to any age or ability to join.
Notable former pupils
* Prof Emma Bunce
Emma J. Bunce (born 1975) is a British space physicist and Professor of Planetary Plasma Physics at the University of Leicester. She holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Her research is on the magnetospheres of Saturn and Jupite ...
, Professor of Planetary Plasma Physics at the University of Leicester
, mottoeng = So that they may have life
, established =
, type = public research university
, endowment = £20.0 million
, budget = £326 million
, chancellor = David Willetts
, vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah
, head_labe ...
, won the Chapman Medal in 2018
References
External links
Davison High School Website
Buildings and structures in Worthing
Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of Chichester
Girls' schools in West Sussex
Secondary schools in West Sussex
Voluntary controlled schools in England
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