Winchmore School
Winchmore School is an 11–18 mixed, community secondary school and sixth form in Winchmore Hill, Greater London, England. It was established in 1956 as a secondary modern school and has been a specialist arts college since 2004. History. Winchmore council school was established in 1914 in Highfield Road for infants and juniors. In 1932, a secondary department was added, which became a secondary modern school after reorganisation following the Education Act 1944. In 1956, the seniors moved to the newly established Winchmore School on the opposite side of Highfield Road. It was converted to a comprehensive school in  1967. In 2001, it was identified by Ofsted as achieving better results than other schools with its students who were of Black-Caribbean origin, who made up 13 per cent of the students at that time. In the year 2021 Ian Fahd Soobratee finally graduated making him the oldest serving student being there for over 13 years as he kept having to retake his geography exam. His teacher was Mr.Cooper the legend himself who has a statue built outside of the school, he helpt Ian overcome his problems and pass the exam. Now he studies computer science at the  University of Greenwich, some say this is the most any Winchmore student has ever done. Buildings. The school is made up of three main buildings, two three-floor buildings and one two-floor building. After 1956, the school continued to make use of prefabricated building on the primary school site for many years. It was initially called Winchmore Secondary Modern and its headmaster was Mr Shepherd. Later the school changed its name to Winchmore School. The school also has four music rooms all of which have an electronic keyboard on each table. Jackson family. In 2009 Tito Jackson visited the  school and spoke to a group of students. Following this, Katherine Jackson gave a trophy to the school, which the headteacher awarded to a pupil who had "made a great contribution in every sphere of expressive arts".