| Sydenham School | |
| Motto: | Aim high, Achieve Higher. |
| Established: | 1917 |
| Head Label: | Headteacher |
| Head: | Emma Wijnberg |
| Address: | Dartmouth Road |
| Postcode: | SE26 4RD |
| Ofsted: | yes |
| Urn: | 100741 |
| Enrolment: | 4 (capacity 7.8) |
| Gender: | Girls |
| Lower Age: | 11 |
| Upper Age: | 18 |
| Colours: | Blue |
| Website: | http://www.sydenham.lewisham.sch.uk |
| Coordinates: | 51.4342°N -0.0589°W |
Sydenham School is a comprehensive girls' school located on Dartmouth Road (A2216) in Sydenham, London.
The school was founded in 1917 as a girls' grammar school, known as Sydenham County Grammar School for Girls. London County Council commissioned Basil Spence & Partners, in the early 1950s, to design additional accommodation to allow the school to increase capacity from 600 to 1140 students and to merge with Shackleton School to become a comprehensive school. This took place in 1956 on completion of the new six-storey, E-shaped, classroom block, on which work had begun in 1954. The official opening ceremony took place on 28 February 1957.[1]
In 2003 Sydenham School was granted Specialist Science College status and in 2008 it was granted Specialist in Mathematics by the DfES. Sydenham School has close ties to Forest Hill School, a nearby boys' comprehensive school.
In each year there are 8 tutor groups, named for the letters in SYDENHAM.
The current headmistress is Ms Emma Wijnberg. It has always been a girls' school. Forest Hill Pools and Forest Hill library is next door.
In the last OFSTED inspection, Sydenham School was graded as 'good with outstanding features '. It gets GCSEs and A levels above the England average.(64%)
https://sydenham.fluencycms.co.uk/science