BANCROFT'S SCHOOL
Woodford Green
Essex
IG8 0RF

020 8505 4821

 

Founded by the Drapers' Company in 1727, Bancroft's was originally in Mile End. The school moved to Woodford Wells in 1889. Designed in Tudor style by Sir Arthur Blomfield, the rambling red brick buildings comprise a large quadrangle with a handsome four-storey gatehouse. Bancroft's is Woodford's oldest secondary school and became a direct grant establishment in 1919.
www.bancrofts.essex.sch.uk

CHIGWELL SCHOOL
High Road
Chigwell
Essex
IG7 6QA

020 8500 2021

 

Chigwell School is an independent foundation offering facilities for both boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 18. It was founded in 1629 by Revd Samuel Harsnett, Archbishop of York. Chigwell School has many notable former pupils, including William Penn (1644-1718), founder of Pennsylvania, whose democratic principles were to influence the constitution of the United States of America.
www.chigwell-school.org

FOREST SCHOOL
College Place
Snaresbrook
London
E17 3PY

020 8520 1744

 

Forest School is an independent day school for boys and girls aged 4 to 18. It was founded in 1834 in an attractive setting on the edge of Epping Forest which has barely altered since. When the school was enlarged in the mid-Victorian era, it was further enhanced by the creative input of a number of great architects and designers including William White, G. E. Street, William Morris and Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones.
www.forest.org.uk

ST AUBYN'S SCHOOL
Bunces Lane
Woodford Green
Essex
IG8 9DU

020 8504 1577

 

St Aubyn’s School is a preparatory school for boys and girls aged 3 to 13. It began in 1884 as a boys’ school opposite Bancroft’s in Woodford Wells, moving to Broomhill Walk in 1893. Since 1918, the school has been in Bunces Lane where its main building was once a private house called Pyrmont Villa, later extending into the adjoining parklands. St Aubyn’s has been co-educational since 1995.
www.staubyns.com

WOODFORD COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
High Road
Woodford Green
Essex
IG8 9LA

020 8504 0611

 

Woodford County High School was opened in 1919 in this fine 18th-century mansion, the former manor of Highams. The mansion was built in 1768 and the grounds later redesigned by Humphry Repton in 1793. Highams Park Lake was part of Repton's original landscaping scheme but that side of the estate was sold for residential development in 1893. Although the lake is still surrounded by a park, it is no longer visible from the mansion.
www.woodford.redbridge.sch.uk