History
Due to local government reorganisation, on 1 April 1965 the school ceased to be a Hertfordshire County Council school, and became part of the new London Borough of Barnet.
In September 1971, East Barnet Grammar School became East Barnet Senior High School, a comprehensive school for pupils aged 14–18; and John Hampden School in Westbrook Crescent, New Barnet, became East Barnet Junior High School. Students automatically transferred from the junior to the senior school at the end of their third year.
In 1976 the two schools were combined as East Barnet School, an 11-18 co-educational comprehensive, operating from two sites: the Lower School (Westbrook Crescent) and Upper School (Chestnut Grove). In the late 1980s the usage of the two sites was swapped. Students in Years 7 to 10 were now on the Chestnut Grove site and Years 11 to 13 were at the Westbrook Crescent site.
In 2010 the buildings at Chestnut Grove were demolished and a new school opened with all year groups now on the one site. The Westbrook Crescent site being taken over by JCoSS, a newly built Jewish Community Secondary School, which also opened its doors to new students in the same year.
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