Chessington Community College

Chessington Community College is a co-educational 11-16 inclusive / comprehensive schoolwith a sport centre in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London. It is adjacent to Chessington South railway station operated by South West Trains and connected by bus routes 71 and 467.It has been rebuilt as part of a £27,000,000 project funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families as part of the Governments Better schools for the future scheme and has been completed with all staff and students now able to enjoy the facilities. The school has mounted many successful productions including Beauty And The Beast, A Midsummer Nights Dream and the most recent A Willy Wonka Production all of which were covered by the local newspapers of SurreyHistoryPre-Chessington Community CollegeIn 1939 the Garrison Lane site of Chessington Community College was opened as RAF Chessington and was used as a barrage balloon centre in the defence of London in World War II. After a brief period of operation as a US Air Force base most of the land was sold off for housing; however some of the land was still under military ownership as recent as the mid 1990's.Before 1953, there was only one secondary school in the Chessington area, Moor Lane secondary mixed school, which was opened in 1936. After World War II, large areas of Chessington, east and west of the Leatherhead Road, were scheduled for building development to serve as overspill areas for Surbiton, Kingston and Malden. This meant that new schools had to be provided and it was decided by the then county council to build a new secondary boys' school in Garrison Lane and to retain Moor Lane as a secondary girls' school.