Claremont High School, Kenton


Claremont High School is a co-educational, secondary school and sixth form located in Kenton, in the London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom. The headteacher is Ms Nicola Hyde-Boughey. The school has been an academy since 1 April 2011.

School roll

For the school year 2009/10 there were 1,504 pupils on the roll.

History

The school was founded in 1930 by the Middlesex County Council, and was one of a number of new schools built by the council between the wars in the rapidly developing outer suburbs of London. Claremont is now a multi-specialist school. In 2001 it was designated a specialist school in performing arts. In 2006 it was designated as having a second specialism in maths and computing. In 2012, the school gained academy status, joining many other local schools. In 2017 Claremont became part of a multi-academy trust called Chrysalis Multi-Academy Trust, or CMAT.

Alumni

Former England and Manchester City manager Stuart Pearce attended Claremont High School in the 1970s.