History
The school was founded in 1928 as Starcross School and moved into the buildings made vacant by the 1965 closing of Risinghill School, which had opened in 1960, although a school has existed on the site since 1899 (originally Rising Hill Street School). It was later renamed Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School.
In 2009, the school was visited by Michelle Obama, wife of the American president Barack Obama. On 25 May 2011, during a state visit of the US president, she took a group of 35 pupils at the school to Oxford University for a presentation.
The school is being rebuilt and will be finished in November 2012.
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