Latymer Upper School
Latymer Upper School is a independent school in London, England.
In 1624, a wealthy puritan, Edward Latymer, pledged on his death-bed to educate and feed "eight poore boies" of Fulham, which then included Hammersmith. For the next twenty years, local boys were educated in a school erected in Fulham's churchyard, moving in 1648 to another school built in Hammersmith. Later, in 1657, a parochial charity school was set up, which served as the Latymer legacy for the following century until it was rebuilt in 1755. A new facility was built on what is now King Street in Hammersmith in 1863, and was replaced in 1890 with a new building between King Street and the Thames. This structure persists to the present day as the core of the Upper School.
The school today has 1,100 pupils, all day boys and girls from the local area. The school has been fully co-educational since September 2004 when the first girls were admitted at 11+. The sixth form (academic years 12 and 13) has been co-educational since 1997, while the feeder school, Latymer Preparatory School, admitted girls for the first time the year before.
The school's current Headmaster is Peter Winter who arrived at the school in 2002.
Famous ex-Latymerians include Hugh Grant, Christopher Guard, Alan Rickman, Mel Smith, and MP Keith Vaz.
The famous British model Lily Cole is currently a pupil at the Latymer Upper Sixth Form studying for her A2 exams.
See also
- Godolphin and Latymer School
- The Latymer School, situated in Edmonton, which was also covered by Latymer's bequest.