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'''The Latymer School''' is a selective, ] ] in ], London, England, established in 1624 by ]. According to league tables, Latymer is one of the top ] in the country. '''The Latymer School''' is a selective, ] ] in ], London, England, established in 1624 by ].


== History and traditions == == History and traditions ==
Latymer was established in 1624 on Church Street, Edmonton by ] of ], a ] merchant in ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=History of the school {{!}} The Latymer School|url=https://www.latymer.co.uk/school/history|access-date=2022-01-01|website=www.latymer.co.uk}}</ref> Although most of his wealth passed to the people of Hammersmith and the Parish of St Dunstan's (now ]), he named certain properties and estates to fund the education and livelihoods of "eight poore boies of Edmonton" with a ], a pair of breeches, a shirt, a pair of woollen stockings and shoes distributed biannually on ] and ]. Pupils wore the red Latymer cross on their sleeves. Latymer was established in 1624 on Church Street, Edmonton by ] of ], a ] merchant in ].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=History of the school {{!}} The Latymer School|url=https://www.latymer.co.uk/school/history|access-date=2022-01-01|website=www.latymer.co.uk}}</ref> Although most of his wealth passed to the people of Hammersmith and the Parish of St Dunstan's (now ]), he named certain properties and estates to fund the education and livelihoods of "eight poore boies of Edmonton" with a ], a pair of breeches, a shirt, a pair of woollen stockings and shoes distributed biannually on ] and ]. Pupils wore the red Latymer cross on their sleeves.

⚫ The school has formal links with ] (Edward Latymer's College) and ] (the College of Edward Latymer's father, William Latymer) which have endowments which may be used for the furtherance of the studies of former Latymer pupils at those colleges.


In 1662, John Wild of Edmonton made a bequest for the annual maintenance of a schoolmaster and a poor scholar at Cambridge. In 1697, Thomas Style extended the bequest to fund the education of "twenty poor boys ... Grammar and Latin tongue." Several similar benefactions produced about £550 per annum, which funded the instruction of more than one hundred boys, of which sixty were clothed. In 1811, Ann Wyatt, a widow from ], willed her ] Annuities for the construction and maintenance of a new school. The school-room was built in 1811 in accordance to her will.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latymer.co.uk/the-latymer-foundation/the-latymer-foundation|title=Latymer - Four Centuries of Giving|publisher=The Latymer Foundation|access-date=2019-04-03}}</ref> In 1662, John Wild of Edmonton made a bequest for the annual maintenance of a schoolmaster and a poor scholar at Cambridge. In 1697, Thomas Style extended the bequest to fund the education of "twenty poor boys ... Grammar and Latin tongue." Several similar benefactions produced about £550 per annum, which funded the instruction of more than one hundred boys, of which sixty were clothed. In 1811, Ann Wyatt, a widow from ], willed her ] Annuities for the construction and maintenance of a new school. The school-room was built in 1811 in accordance to her will.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latymer.co.uk/the-latymer-foundation/the-latymer-foundation|title=Latymer - Four Centuries of Giving|publisher=The Latymer Foundation|access-date=2019-04-03}}</ref>


The school did not take on Latymer's name for some centuries, when it finally did, it was known as Latymer's School. At some point, the apostrophe was dropped and the name modified to the Latymer School. It has been situated on its present site since 1910, when it also became coeducational.<ref name=":0" /> The school motto, ''Qui Patitur Vincit'' ('Who endures wins'), was also adopted in 1910 by Richard Ashworth, then headmaster. Prior to this, the motto was ''Palmam Qui Meruit Ferat'' ('Let he who bears the palm (of honour) deserve it'). The school did not take on Latymer's name for some centuries; when it finally did, it was known as Latymer's School. At some point, the apostrophe was dropped and the name modified to the Latymer School. It has been situated on its present site since 1910, when it also became coeducational.<ref name=":0" />


⚫ The school has formal links with ] (Edward Latymer's College) and ] (the College of Edward Latymer's father, William Latymer) which have endowments which may be used for the furtherance of the studies of former Latymer pupils at those colleges.
⚫ In 1967 the school switched to a comprehensive intake as a result of ], a request from the Labour government to local education authorities to plan for conversion to a fully comprehensive education system. However, a certain amount of informal selection still took place in liaison with local primary schools.

⚫ In 1967 the school switched to a comprehensive intake as a result of ], a request from the Labour government to local education authorities to plan for conversion to a fully comprehensive education system. However, a certain amount of informal selection still took place in liaison with local primary schools.{{cn|date= January 2025}}


In 1988, Latymer took advantage of the ] to become a ] school with selective entrance exams once more. Grant-maintained status was abolished by the ] and Latymer reverted to ] status. In 1988, Latymer took advantage of the ] to become a ] school with selective entrance exams once more. Grant-maintained status was abolished by the ] and Latymer reverted to ] status.


== Ofsted judgement and school ranking==
== School site ==
The school underwent its most recent ] inspection on 24 March 2022, when it received an overall grade of 'Good', after having previously been graded 'Outstanding' on 25 January 2008. Its 6th form facilities remain graded ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/23/102055 | title=Find an inspection report and registered childcare | date=6 October 2020 }}</ref> In the 2023 'Parent Power' rankings, published by '']'' newspaper, the school was ranked 21st in the UK and seventh-best in London. In that same year, 86.5% of GCSE examinations achieved A-grades (15th nationwide), and 61.7% of entries gained A-grades at A-level, while 83% obtained A or B grades (36th nationwide).<ref>{{cite web |title=Parent Power: The Latymer School |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/schools-league-table/the-latymer-school-aCkF89s6fH3K |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=The Times}}</ref>
]
Much of the north end of the school (principally the Small Hall and surrounding rooms) was built in 1910 after the Old Latymer Schoolhouse (Built mainly by Ann Wyatt and extended in the time of Charles Dolbé) in Church Street was abandoned. The buildings on the present site were provided by Middlesex County Council at a cost of £6,782, and accommodated 150 pupils. Twelve classrooms built in 1924 in the North Block allowed pupil capacity to triple.

The Great Hall, science laboratories and South Block were opened in a ceremony in 1928 by the Duke and Duchess of York. Fully equipped with stage and seating for over 1,000 people, the hall is used for school assemblies, concerts, drama productions and other major events. It is home to the Davis organ, which was repaired and upgraded in 2005.

The gymnasia, art studios and technology block were opened in 1966 by ]. The 12 science laboratories and 6 technology rooms (including facilities for graphic design, product design, textiles and cookery) were re-equipped and modernised in the late 1990s.

Much of the school was modernised in the time of Dr. Trefor Jones. The balconies were altered in the Great Hall so that the pillars were not so obstructive to the view of the stage and the balustrade removed and replaced with panels of fluted light oak. Dark green tiles adorned the walls below the ] in much of the older parts of the school which were removed and the walls refinished.

The sixth form common room was converted in 2000 from the Jones Lecture Theatre, which had itself been converted from a gymnasium to mark the retirement of Dr. Jones as Headmaster in 1970. The sixth form study area was built as the common room in 1984 to mark the retirement of headteacher Edward Kelly. Upon the conversion of the Jones Lecture Theatre to the common room, the 1984 building was made into a space for the sixth form to study in their free periods and a connecting building was built between the two, housing offices for the Head of the Sixth Form and a servery for sixth form students.

The 'Mills Building' (named after the former head Geoffrey Mills), a performing arts complex, was opened in the spring of 2000 to service the Music, Drama and Media Studies departments.
]
The school owns a residential outdoor pursuits centre in ], Wales. The centre, Ysgol Latymer, was established on the site of an old primary school situated in the small village of ] (5 miles from ]) in 1966, as a 'school away from school'. Since, the school has developed it into a residential centre, accommodating up to forty staff and pupils. It acts as a base of operations for week-long trips in the first year.

The school owns {{convert|12|acre|m2}} of playing fields laid out for football, hockey, rugby union, cricket, rounders and ] according to season.

]

A new Sports and Dining Complex was opened in a ceremony by ] on 18 May 2006. The facility is a ] development, occupying only slightly more area than the previous catering facility from the 1940s. Various ] measures are incorporated into its design, including solar panels providing hot water, ]s reducing the need for artificial lighting and ]s to provide ventilation.

In September 2022 a new 3G all-weather football pitch was opened on the playing field, built with funding from the ].

== Ofsted judgements==
The school underwent its most recent ] inspection on 24 March 2022, when it received an overall grade of 'Good' with a grade of 'Outstanding' for the sixth form, after having previously been graded 'Outstanding' on 25 January 2008.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/23/102055 | title=Find an inspection report and registered childcare | date=6 October 2020 }}</ref>

== League table results ==
The school was awarded 'State Secondary School of the Year' in 'Parent Power', published by '']'' newspaper in 2009. In that same year, 91.9% of GCSE examinations achieved grades A and A*, and 76.4% of entries gained A-grades at A-level (more than any other state school), while 93% obtained A or B grades.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/parentpower/schools_of_the_year.php?p=state_secondary|title=The Times & The Sunday Times|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>

In 2019, Latymer was listed in 'Parent Power' as the top co-educational state school in London and fifth co-educational state secondary school in the UK.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/best-uk-schools-guide-parent-power-tr95xdztg|title=The Times & The Sunday Times|access-date=8 October 2020}}</ref>


== Notable former pupils == == Notable former pupils ==
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{{Alumni|date=June 2018}}
'''In entertainment''' '''In entertainment'''
*],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CyuSCgAAQBAJ&q=%22Evelyn+Ankers%22&pg=PA74|title=Women in Horror Films, 1940s|last1=Mank|first1=Gregory William|date=2005|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786423354|page=54|language=en|access-date=November 4, 2017}}</ref> actress, known as "the Queen of the B movies" *],<ref>{{cite book | last=Mank | first=G.W. | title=Women in Horror Films, 1940s | publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-7864-2335-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CyuSCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA74 | access-date=2024-03-22 |quote=Latymer School in London, as well as the Golophyn School and the Tacchomo School of Music and Dramatic"| page=54}}</ref> actress, known as "the Queen of the B movies"
*], actress<ref>{{Cite news| last =Davis | first =Anna | title =I'd rather study law says rising film star | work =London Evening Standard | publisher =ES London | date =4 September 2006 | url =http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-23365620-id-rather-study-law-says-rising-film-star.do | accessdate =25 March 2010 | url-status =dead | archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20100708224457/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/film/article-23365620-id-rather-study-law-says-rising-film-star.do | archivedate =8 July 2010 | df =dmy-all }}</ref>
*], actress<ref name="Ashitey ">{{cite web|url=http://www.visualhollywood.com/movies/children-of-men/cast.php|title=Children of Men (2006) – Cast and Crew at Visual Hollywood|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
*], actress<ref name="Atkins ">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclocentral.com/14933-Dame_Eileen_Atkins_Performer.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422064432/http://www.encyclocentral.com/14933-Dame_Eileen_Atkins_Performer.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 April 2008|title=EncycloCentral -|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref> *], actress<ref name="Atkins ">{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclocentral.com/14933-Dame_Eileen_Atkins_Performer.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422064432/http://www.encyclocentral.com/14933-Dame_Eileen_Atkins_Performer.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 April 2008|title=EncycloCentral -|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
*], actor
*], entertainer<ref name="Forsyth ">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,,1977341,00.html|title=He can sing, dance, make jokes, his timing is immaculate. He could match Sammy Davis Junior step for step|date=22 December 2006|access-date=30 January 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|last1=Kennedy|first1=Maev}}</ref> *], entertainer<ref name="Forsyth ">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk_news/story/0,,1977341,00.html|title=He can sing, dance, make jokes, his timing is immaculate. He could match Sammy Davis Junior step for step|date=22 December 2006|access-date=30 January 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|last1=Kennedy|first1=Maev}}</ref>
*], actress, "Tanya" in ''Class'', spin-off of ''Doctor Who''
*], director<ref name="Pope"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928175952/http://www.timpope.tv/bio.html |date=2007-09-28 }}</ref> *], director<ref name="Pope"> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928175952/http://www.timpope.tv/bio.html |date=2007-09-28 }}</ref>
*], television producer and presenter<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mike-scott-host-of-the-time-the-place-841358.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mike-scott-host-of-the-time-the-place-841358.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary | location=London | work=The Independent}}</ref>
*], radio and television personality, the ''Memory Man''<ref name="Welch ">{{cite web|url=http://www.johnbarber.com/welch.html|title=Leslie Welch – The Memory Man|first=John|last=Barber|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref> *], radio and television personality, the ''Memory Man''<ref name="Welch ">{{cite web|url=http://www.johnbarber.com/welch.html|title=Leslie Welch – The Memory Man|first=John|last=Barber|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
*], actor, best known for performing "The Candy Man" in the 1971 film '']'' *], actor, best known for performing "The Candy Man" in the 1971 film '']''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Coveney |first1=Michael |title=Aubrey Woods obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/may/14/aubrey-woods |access-date=22 March 2024 |work=The Guardian |date=14 May 2013}}</ref>
*], actress <ref>{{cite news |last1=Jackson |first1=Benjamin |title=BAFTAs 2024 Who is Vivian Oparah, the "Rye Lane" actress nominated for the Best Actress award?|url=https://www.nationalworld.com/news/people/bafta-film-awards-2024-who-is-best-actress-nominee-vivian-oparah-rye-lane-where-to-stream-4518513 |access-date=17 October 2024 |work=The National World |date=14 February 2024}}
</ref>


'''In politics''' '''In politics'''
*], Conservative ]<ref name="Kamall ">{{cite web|url=http://www.syedkamall.com/biography.jsp|title=Biography|access-date=30 January 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417022923/http://www.syedkamall.com/biography.jsp|archive-date=17 April 2014}}</ref> *], Conservative ]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nasrullah |first1=Harun |title=Former MEPs head for the House of Lords |url=https://muslimnews.co.uk/newspaper/home-news/41003-2 |access-date=22 March 2024 |work=The Muslim News |date=29 January 2021}}</ref>
*], anarcho-communist writer<ref name="Meltzer ">{{cite web|url=http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/meltzer/sp001591/angels1.html|title=I couldn't paint golden angels – Chapter I|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref> *], anarcho-communist writer<ref name="Meltzer ">{{cite web|url=http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/meltzer/sp001591/angels1.html|title=I couldn't paint golden angels – Chapter I|access-date=30 January 2017|quote=As I didn't go to an upper-class school, though Latymer was reckoned so locally ... Kids were offered bright hopes in schools like the Latymer School, Edmonton, which was perhaps of the best of its kind, and taught hitherto middle class values to the sons and daughters of the working class}}</ref>
*], British journalist and left-wing political activist *], British journalist and left-wing political activist<ref>{{cite news |last1=Spanner |first1=Huw |title=Young, Gifted and Brown |url=https://highprofiles.info/interview/ash-sarkar |access-date=22 March 2024 |work=High Profiles |date=2020}}</ref>
*], Conservative Party politician<ref name="Wilkinson 2020 p. 213">{{cite book | last=Wilkinson | first=F.L. | title=The Territorial Air Force: The RAF's Voluntary Squadrons, 1926–1957 | publisher=Pen & Sword Books | year=2020 | isbn=978-1-5267-5105-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kALYEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT213 | access-date=2024-03-18 | page=213}}</ref>
*], Conservative Party politician<ref name="Walder ">''] October 1974'' p90</ref>
'''In academia''' '''In academia'''
*], social scientist<ref name="Abrams ">{{cite web|url=http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0014/ABMS|title=Janus: The Papers of Mark Abrams|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref> *], social scientist<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1386|title=Janus: The Papers of Mark Abrams|quote=He was educated at the Latymer School in Edmonton|access-date=18 March 2024|publisher=University of Cambridge}}</ref>
*], vice-chancellor, ], 1981–90<ref name="HistoryOU">{{cite web|title=History of the OU – John Horlock|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/historyofou/story/john-horlock|publisher=Open University|access-date=14 April 2014}}</ref> *], vice-chancellor, ], 1981–90<ref name="HistoryOU">{{cite web|title=History of the OU – John Horlock|url=http://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/historyofou/story/john-horlock|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001073016/https://www.open.ac.uk/researchprojects/historyofou/story/john-horlock|archive-date=1 October 2015|publisher=Open University|access-date=14 April 2014}}</ref>
*], Chief Librarian, ] (from 2018)<ref name "Liz Jolly">{{cite web|url=https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2021/10/library-lives-liz-jolly-british-library-boston-spa-and-st-pancras.html|title=Library Lives: Liz Jolly, British Library Boston Spa and St Pancras|access-date=12 March 2024|date=2018}}</ref> *], Chief Librarian, ] (from 2018)<ref name "Liz Jolly">{{cite web|url=https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2021/10/library-lives-liz-jolly-british-library-boston-spa-and-st-pancras.html|title=Library Lives: Liz Jolly, British Library Boston Spa and St Pancras|access-date=12 March 2024|date=2018}}</ref>{{failed verification|date= March 2024}}
*], historian and novelist<ref name="Prebble ">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/1320496/John-Prebble.html|title=John Prebble|access-date=30 January 2017|date=February 2001}}</ref> *], historian and novelist<ref name="Prebble ">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/1320496/John-Prebble.html|title=John Prebble|access-date=30 January 2017|date=February 2001}}</ref>
*], economist and civil aviation expert influential in founding of ]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/05/09/stephen-wheatcroft-aviation-expert--obituary|title = Stephen Wheatcroft, aviation expert – obituary|newspaper = The Telegraph|date = 9 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stephen-wheatcroft-qdd69s2j3 |title = Stephen Wheatcroft {{!}} Register {{!}} The Times}}</ref> *], economist and civil aviation expert influential in founding of ]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/05/09/stephen-wheatcroft-aviation-expert--obituary|title = Stephen Wheatcroft, aviation expert – obituary|newspaper = The Telegraph|date = 9 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stephen-wheatcroft-qdd69s2j3 |title = Stephen Wheatcroft {{!}} Register {{!}} The Times}}</ref>
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'''In sport''' '''In sport'''
*], trampoline pioneer<ref name="Blake ">{{cite web|url=http://www.brentwoodtc.org/history.htm#Early_Years|title=The detailed history of trampolining from Nissen to Blake and still onwards|last=dave@kingserv.org|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref> *], trampoline pioneer<ref name="Blake ">{{cite web|url=http://www.brentwoodtc.org/history.htm#Early_Years|title=The detailed history of trampolining from Nissen to Blake and still onwards|last=dave@kingserv.org|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
*], former ] and ] ] captain<ref name="Haynes ">{{cite web|website=North Middlesex Referees|url=http://www.northmiddlesexreferees.org.uk/magazines/nov2005.pdf|title=November 2005|access-date=1 February 2017}}</ref> *], former ] and ] ] captain<ref>{{cite book | last=Gardner | first=J. | title=Johnny Haynes | publisher=Pitch Publishing | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-78531-347-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QcpHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT25 | access-date=2024-03-14 | page=25}}</ref>
⚫ *], footballer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.mehstg.com/fact_sanders.htm|title=arthur sanders – fact file|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
*], former ] and ] footballer.<ref name="Medley">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/23/guardianobituaries.football|title=Les Medley|first=Brian|last=Glanville|date=22 March 2001|access-date=30 January 2017|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> *], former ] and ] footballer.<ref name="Medley">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/23/guardianobituaries.football|title=Les Medley|first=Brian|last=Glanville|date=22 March 2001|access-date=30 January 2017|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>
⚫ *], footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=arthur sanders – fact file |url=http://archive.mehstg.com/fact_sanders.htm |access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
*], ] of ]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/25734351|title=Mark Warburton: From the City of London to Brentford manager|date=17 January 2014|access-date=30 January 2017|work=BBC Sport}}</ref>
*], formerly ] of ]<ref name="DR-2016">{{cite news |last1=Ralston |first1=Gary |title=My old pal Mark Warburton's trying to make me a Rangers man but I'd LOVE a Celtic win says Frank McLintock |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/old-pal-mark-warburtons-trying-8795652 |access-date=14 March 2024 |work=The Daily Record |date=9 September 2016}}</ref>


'''In music''' '''In music'''
*], British electronic artist<ref name="ham">{{Cite news|url=http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/etcetera/music/highly_strung_sounds_of_success_for_clean_bandit_1_3283121|title=Highly-strung sounds of success for Clean Bandit|last=Bellotti|first=Alex|work=Hampstead Highgate Express|access-date=13 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151229230842/https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/etcetera/music/highly_strung_sounds_of_success_for_clean_bandit_1_3283121|archive-date=29 December 2015|language=en}}</ref>
⚫ *], music writer, former executive of ] records<ref name="Cook ">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2176359,00.html|title=Richard Cook|first=John|last=Fordham|date=24 September 2007|access-date=30 January 2017|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>
⚫ *], cellist in British electronic music band Clean Bandit<ref name="ham"/>
⚫ *], original drummer of ]<ref name="Wilson ">{{cite web|url=http://www.procolharum.com/ken_bjw.htm|title=Kenny White on Barrie Wilson|access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
⚫ *], music writer, former executive of ] records<ref name="Cook">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2176359,00.html|title=Richard Cook|first=John|last=Fordham|date=24 September 2007|access-date=30 January 2017|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>
⚫ *], cellist in British electronic music band Clean Bandit
⚫ *], original drummer of ]<ref name="Wilson">{{cite web |title=Kenny White on Barrie Wilson |url=http://www.procolharum.com/ken_bjw.htm |access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref>
*], British electronic artist.


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*], 78th bishop of Salisbury<ref>{{cite web |title=Nomination: Diocese of Salisbury |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/nomination-diocese-of-salisbury |publisher=Prime Minister's Office |access-date=13 March 2024 |date=12 April 2011}}</ref>
*], 78th bishop of Salisbury
*], bishop of Blackburn<ref>{{cite book | author=Church of England| title=The Church of England Year Book | publisher=Church Information Office Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge | year=2011 | isbn=978-0-7151-1047-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OlWVLOAfnO8C | access-date=7 December 2024 | page=}}</ref>
*], bishop of Burnley
*], ] of the Second World War


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Voluntary aided grammar school in Edmonton, Greater London, England
The Latymer School
Address
Haselbury Road
Edmonton, Greater London, N9 9TN
England
Coordinates51°37′30″N 0°04′28″W / 51.6250°N 0.0744°W / 51.6250; -0.0744
Information
TypeVoluntary aided grammar school
MottoLatin: Qui Patitur Vincit
("He who endures wins")
Established1624; 401 years ago (1624)
FounderEdward Latymer
Local authorityEnfield Council
Department for Education URN102055 Tables
OfstedReports
Chair of the Governing BoardStephen Way
HeadteacherMaureen Cobbett
Staff141 (as of November 2016)
GenderCo-educational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1,365 (2016–17 academic year)
Houses  Ashworth
  Dolbé
  Keats
  Lamb
  Latymer
  Wyatt
Colour(s)Royal and navy blue
   
Websitehttps://www.latymer.co.uk

The Latymer School is a selective, mixed grammar school in Edmonton, London, England, established in 1624 by Edward Latymer.

History and traditions

Latymer was established in 1624 on Church Street, Edmonton by bequest of Edward Latymer, a London City merchant in Hammersmith. Although most of his wealth passed to the people of Hammersmith and the Parish of St Dunstan's (now Latymer Upper School), he named certain properties and estates to fund the education and livelihoods of "eight poore boies of Edmonton" with a doublet, a pair of breeches, a shirt, a pair of woollen stockings and shoes distributed biannually on Ascension Day and All Saints' Day. Pupils wore the red Latymer cross on their sleeves.

In 1662, John Wild of Edmonton made a bequest for the annual maintenance of a schoolmaster and a poor scholar at Cambridge. In 1697, Thomas Style extended the bequest to fund the education of "twenty poor boys ... Grammar and Latin tongue." Several similar benefactions produced about £550 per annum, which funded the instruction of more than one hundred boys, of which sixty were clothed. In 1811, Ann Wyatt, a widow from Hackney, willed her Navy Annuities for the construction and maintenance of a new school. The school-room was built in 1811 in accordance to her will.

The school did not take on Latymer's name for some centuries; when it finally did, it was known as Latymer's School. At some point, the apostrophe was dropped and the name modified to the Latymer School. It has been situated on its present site since 1910, when it also became coeducational.

The school has formal links with St John's College, Cambridge (Edward Latymer's College) and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (the College of Edward Latymer's father, William Latymer) which have endowments which may be used for the furtherance of the studies of former Latymer pupils at those colleges.

In 1967 the school switched to a comprehensive intake as a result of Circular 10/65, a request from the Labour government to local education authorities to plan for conversion to a fully comprehensive education system. However, a certain amount of informal selection still took place in liaison with local primary schools.

In 1988, Latymer took advantage of the Education Reform Act 1988 to become a Grant-Maintained school with selective entrance exams once more. Grant-maintained status was abolished by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998 and Latymer reverted to voluntary aided status.

Ofsted judgement and school ranking

The school underwent its most recent Ofsted inspection on 24 March 2022, when it received an overall grade of 'Good', after having previously been graded 'Outstanding' on 25 January 2008. Its 6th form facilities remain graded ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted. In the 2023 'Parent Power' rankings, published by The Times newspaper, the school was ranked 21st in the UK and seventh-best in London. In that same year, 86.5% of GCSE examinations achieved A-grades (15th nationwide), and 61.7% of entries gained A-grades at A-level, while 83% obtained A or B grades (36th nationwide).

Notable former pupils

See also: Category:People educated at The Latymer School

In entertainment

In politics

In academia

In sport

In music

Other

References

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