Education
- History
By the early 1960s, Harold Hill had six secondary schools:
- Broxhill Secondary Modern (Mixed), near the corner of Broxhill Road and Noak Hill Road
- Harold Hill Grammar School (Mixed), on Appleby Drive
- Harrowfield Secondary Modern School (Boys), on Settle Road
- Harrowfield Secondary Modern School (Girls), on Settle Road – next door to, but completely separate from, the Boys' school
- Havering College (Mixed), on Tring Gardens
These schools had been built to cope with the post-WW2 'baby-boom', but because of government education policy, Broxhill and Harold Hill Grammar merged to form Bedford Park Comprehensive. Then because of demographic changes, Quarles Boys' and Girls' Schools later merged with Harrowfield to form the Neave School (later King's Wood). After further name changes and closures, Harold Hill now has just one secondary school, Drapers' Academy, on the site of the former Harrowfield / Neave / King's Wood schools.
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