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Location: Holland Villas Road, London, England, United Kingdom.
Website: http://www.cvms.co.uk/
Phone: +44 20 7603 8478
The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School
The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School is a Roman Catholic voluntary-aided comprehensive school in Holland Park, Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. And formerly one of several Selective Catholic Schools in England. The current headmaster is Paul Stubbings.The School has Specialist Status in science, mathematics and information technology. The School has approximately 950 students. The A2-Level Pass Rate in 2006 was 100% (National Average: 97%), and over 95% of the grades were A-C. The average number of UCAS points per candidate was 359. The standard of the School's music-making is especially fine and renowned nationally. The school does not select year seven pupils on academic prowess, but does ensure all pupils are practising Catholics.
History of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School:
Founded in 1914, the School is a national memorial to the third Archbishop of Westminster, Herbert, Cardinal Vaughan. In response to his death an appeal was set up to raise funds to found a school in memory to the Cardinal and some £20,000 was subscribed. The founders included such distinguished persons as Viscount Fitzalan, the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Ripon. At first a private school, it became a state-funded grammar school in 1944. The Vaughan began to take pupils of all abilities in 1977 and became an all ability school; girls were first admitted to the Sixth Form in 1977. The School is now voluntary-aided and draws pupils chiefly, but not exclusively from Inner London.
The Vaughan School opened its doors in the Victorian Building now known as Addison Hall, as a private school, to twenty- nine boys on 21 September 1914, appointing Canon Driscoll as the first Headmaster.
In the next decade the school expanded and it was decided to seek recognition by the Board of Education for the grant as an independent day school. A piece of land, some 6 acres (24,000 m2) in North Wembley, was also purchased for playing fields, which were later exchanged for the present site at Twickenham, adjacent to the international Rugby Football Union ground
Following a brief interregnum after Canon Driscoll’s death, Monsignor Canon J.G. Vance became Headmaster in 1928. His determination and devotion helped the School battle through the trials of the Second World War, when it was evacuated to Beaumont College, Windsor.
