Heston Community School is a state-run secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 situated in Heston

Heston

Heston is a place in the London Borough of Hounslow, west London. It is a suburban development area, based on a former farming village west south-west of Charing Cross.-History:...

. It caters for a wide range of children aged between 11 and 18. The main building was put up when the school was first established in the 1930s but there have been extensive improvements to the site in more recent years. There is now a sports centre and many new teaching areas that replaced the temporary accommodation that used to be a feature at the front of the school. The sixth form

Sixth form

In the education systems of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and of Commonwealth West Indian countries such as Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, Jamaica and Malta, the sixth form is the final two years of secondary education, where students, usually sixteen to eighteen years of age,...

 and the Hearing Impared Unit have both been a feature of the school since the 1980s. In 2004 it gained the status of a Specialist Visual Arts School

Arts College

Arts Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, the performing, visual and/or media arts...

 and in the future the school intends to convert to Academy

Academy (England)

In the education system of England, an academy is a school that is directly funded by central government and independent of control by local government in England. An academy may receive additional support from personal or corporate sponsors, either financially or in kind...

status.

External links

• Heston Community School