George Green's School

George Green's School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form, located in Cubitt Town on the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England.^[1]

George Green's School
Main entrance to George Green's School in Manchester Road
Location
100 Manchester Road Isle of Dogs , London , E14 3DW England
Coordinates	51.48786°N 0.00787°W / 51.48786; -0.00787
Information
Type	Voluntary controlled comprehensive school
Mottoes	Latin: Fideleter (Faithfully); Aspiration, Equality, Excellence
Established	1828; 197 years ago (1828)
Founder	George Green
Local authority	Tower Hamlets
Department for Education URN	100974 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Principal	Jon Ryder
Gender	Coeducational
Age	11 to 19
Enrolment	1219 (Ofsted report 2022)
Website	www.georgegreens.com

History

Former premises of George Green's Grammar School, located in Poplar.

The school, which was originally located on East India Dock Road, was founded in 1828 by George Green, a shipbuilder and shipwright.^[2] A maritime connection with the school has been maintained since then. In 1884, the school moved from the original buildings to new premises which provided places for 200 boys and 200 girls, in separate classrooms. The pupils paid modest fees or were assisted with scholarships. Later it became a LCC maintained school and was the first to institute co-education. It remained open until 1979 when it became part of Tower Hamlets College. Today it is a voluntary controlled school supported by the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.^[3] It has a comprehensive intake of pupils, and is administered by Tower Hamlets London Borough Council.

Grammar school

It was a voluntary-controlled coeducational grammar school located on East India Dock Road Poplar.

Comprehensive

In 1975 it became a comprehensive, moving to a new site on the Isle of Dogs.

Admissions

George Green's School offers GCSEs and vocational courses as programmes of study for pupils,^[4] while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels^[5] and the IB Diploma Programme.^[6]

Notable former pupils

George Green's Grammar School

• Prof Roderic Alfred Gregory CBE FRS, George Holt Professor of Physiology from 1948 to 1981 at the University of Liverpool, who studied gastrin
• Prof Kenneth Harrap CBE, Professor of Biochemical Pharmacology from 1984 to 1997
• Sam Lesser, Daily Worker/Morning Star journalist, veteran of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.^[7]
• John Scurr, Labour MP

George Green's Comprehensive

• Jane Martinson, journalist on The Guardian^[8]