Fox Primary School is a

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for children between the ages of 4 and 11, in the

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. It is located on Kensington Place, between Kensington Church Street and

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. The school has a playground on each side. Prior to the 1960s the school was infants only, aged 5 – 7. The Junior School was adjacent, a

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school called St George's School. St George's had no playground and shared the Fox School playgrounds. During the Second World War, pupils from the school were evacuated and taught at

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, Wiltshire. The school has a large new addition to its land, completed in 2017. The school is considering an alliance with Ashburnham Community School.

History

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It was founded in 1842 as a charity school by Hon. Caroline Fox (3 Nov 1767 - 12 Mar 1845), of

Little Holland House Little Holland House was the dower house of Holland House in the parish of Kensington, Middlesex, England. It was situated at the end of Nightingale Lane, now the back entrance to Holland Park and was demolished when Melbury Road was made. Nu ...

, Kensington, who died unmarried aged 78. She was the only daughter of

Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland of Holland and 2nd Baron Holland of Foxley (20 February 1745 – 26 December 1774) of Holland House in Kensington, Middlesex, was a British peer. Biography Lord Holland was the eldest son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron ...

(1745-1774), of

Holland House Holland House, originally known as Cope Castle, was an early Jacobean country house in Kensington, London London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

, Kensington, (son of

Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, PC (28 September 1705 – 1 July 1774), of Holland House in Kensington and of Holland House in Kingsgate, Kent, was a leading British politician. He identified primarily with the Whig faction. He held the posts o ...

(1705-1774) by his wife

Lady Caroline Lennox Georgiana Carolina Fox, 1st Baroness Holland, of Holland (27 March 1723 – 24 July 1774), known as Lady Caroline Lennox before 1744 and as Lady Caroline Fox from 1744 to 1762, was the eldest of the Lennox sisters. Family background The Lenno ...

(1723-1774)) by his wife Lady Mary FitzPatrick, a daughter of

John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory (1719 – 23 September 1758) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman who lived in County Cork, Ireland. He was the son of Richard FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Gowran, and Anne ( Robinson) and educated at Queen's Coll ...

. Hon. Caroline Fox was the only sister of

Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley PC (21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840), was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century. A grandson of Henry F ...

(1773-1840), of Holland House, who owned most of the land within the manor of Kensington, and was a niece of the Whig statesman

Charles James Fox Charles James Fox (24 January 1749 – 13 September 1806), styled ''The Honourable'' from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the arch-riv ...

(1749-1806), who made Holland House a famous meeting place of prominent Whig politicians. In 1802 she was living at Little Holland House, in the grounds of Holland House. The school was established "for the education of children of the labouring, manufacturing and other poorer classes" of Kensington. Its original location was near her home of Little Holland House (now demolished) on the west side of today's

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, to the west of today's number 14 Holland Park Road, a house built for the painter Val Prinsep on the Holland House estate, which is next to

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(12 Holland Park Road) the house built for the painter Lord Leighton. In 1876 it was taken over by the

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, which moved it to a new site in Silver Street, today the northern end of Kensington Church Street. In 1877 the original site of the school in Holland Park Road was sold by auction for £2,650, and in its place was built the present Nos. 20–30 (even) Holland Park Road, a group of six two-storey studio residences arranged around a courtyard with an arched entrance, originally called "The Studios".Survey of London: Volume 37 The school moved a third time in 1937 to its present site on Kensington Place.

Notable former pupils

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Notable former teachers

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2009 test scores

2005 test scores

OFSTED reports
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