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Fulham School, originally founded as Fulham Preparatory School, is a school in
Fulham Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies in a loop on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea, London, Chelsea ...
, London, teaching children from the age of three up to eighteen. From its beginnings as a pre-prep and preparatory school, in 2017, it moved into also providing secondary education.Julian Owen
Fulham School to undergo multi-million-pound transformation
ie-today.co.uk, 9 August 2019, accessed 4 February 2021
The Prep school's buildings in Greyhound Road, Hammersmith, were previously used by Holborn College, and from 1981 until 1985, were the film location for the children's television programme ''
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''. The school has a new senior school campus at Chesilton Road, Fulham, completed in March 2021, which accommodates 220 students from Year Nine onwards in a new purpose-built building."Fulham School Welcomes Sixth Form and new facilities"
fenews.co.uk, 6 August 2019
September 2021 saw the launch of a
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, following accreditation process for the
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, to be able to offer Sixth Form students the
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. But since then the closure of the Senior School was announced in November 2024, with the last lot of its senior students having to hastidly finish their GCSE’s and A levels before the schools close by at the end of the 2025 academic year
"Inspection of Fulham School"
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inspection report 3–5 March 2020, accessed 4 February 2021
Unfortunately as of November 2024, the closure of the Senior School has been announced for the end of the 2025 academic year. The school also has a nursery and pre-prep campus located on Fulham High Street.


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Fulham School Ofsted reports
Preparatory schools in London Private schools in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Fulham {{London-school-stub