Villiers High School is a co-educational 11–18 school and sixth form in the

Southall Southall () is a large suburban county of West London, England, part of the London Borough of Ealing and is one of its seven major towns. It is situated west of Charing Cross and had a population of 69,857 as of 2011. It is generally divided ...

area of the west London borough of

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. The school is situated in Boyd Avenue, in the heart of Southall. Aruna Sharma was appointed Headteacher in September 2017. as of 2022 it has around 1,500 pupils on roll, 250 of whom are in the sixth form. The local authority, the

London Borough of Ealing The London Borough of Ealing () is a London borough in West London. It comprises seven major towns: Acton (W3), Ealing (W5, W13, NW10), Greenford (UB6), Hanwell (W7), Northolt (UB5), Perivale (UB6) and Southall (UB1, UB2). With a population of 3 ...

, administers the Co-ordinated High School Admissions Scheme, for Villiers High School.

History

The school first opened as Southall County School in 1907. It changed its name to Southall Grammar in 1945. In 1963 the school merged with Southall College of Technology (a boys' technical school, which had been located in Beaconsfield Road) and was renamed Southall Grammar Technical School. The name was changed to Villiers High School in 1974. The sixth-form opened in 2009.

Ofsted

After inspections which rated the school as ''Satisfactory'' in 2007 and ''Requires Improvement'' in 2010, the school was rated ''Good'' in all areas in spring 2015 following an

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inspection.Villiers High School
Ofsted. Published 19 May 2015.Villiers High School
Ofsted. Published 17 May 2013. The report found the school is "rapidly improving" under "very strong" leadership of the senior leadership team. The school was described as "a harmonious community characterised by mutual respect and high aspirations".

Notable teaching staff

In 2008, David Onllwyn Jones, an assistant head teacher at the school, was made

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for his services to education.

Notable former pupils

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Southall Grammar Technical School

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(1960–68) * Stephen Harrison FCCA Finance Director, Duffy Group plc * Prof

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in 1984

Southall Grammar School

* Dennis Amy CMG OBE, Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Madagascar from 1990–92 *

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* Barry Foster (actor), known in the early 1970s for Thames Television's ''Van der Valk'' * Sir Leslie Murphy, Chairman from 1977-79 of the National Enterprise Board * Prof Ronald Ottewill OBE FRS FRSC, Leverhulme Professor of Physical Chemistry from 1982–92 and Professor of Colloid Science from 1970–82 at the

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, philosopher * Archibald Willett, Managing Director from 1973-77 of Cable & Wireless Ltd

References

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