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| Sandford Park School | |
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| Location | |
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| Coordinates | 53°19′20″N6°15′01″W / 53.322202°N 6.25014°W /53.322202; -6.25014 |
| Information | |
| Type | Non-denominational |
| Established | 1922 |
| Principal | Edith Byrne |
| Gender | Co-ed |
| Age | 12 to 18 |
| Number of students | 429 |
| Colours | Green,Gold andPurple |
| Website | sandfordparkschool.ie |
Sandford Park School is an independent, non-denominational, co-educational secondary school, located inRanelagh,Dublin,Ireland. It was founded in 1922.
The school was founded in 1922 by Alfred Le Peton, who served as its first headmaster. Le Peton had previously served as joint headmaster of Earlsfort House School alongside Ernest Exshaw.[1] It was decided to move the school from the terraced city-centre property of Earlsfort House to the 2.5 hectareRanelagh property of Sandford Park, originally designed in 1894 by Thomas Edmund Hudman for James P. Pile, a property developer and Hudman’s brother-in-law.[2][3] The school was founded asnon-denominational, to contrast with the majority of schools in Ireland at the time, which had religious patronages.[4] In its first year of teaching, the school had enrolled fifty-three boys.[1] Le Peton resigned as headmaster in 1925.
In 2013, the school began accepting enrolment for girls in all year groups, and in 2021 there were 429 students attending in total, of whom 171 were girls.[5][1][6]
The Sandford Union, apast pupils union, was inaugurated in the 1930s. It holds several events during the year culminating in an annual dinner held every year on the fourth Friday in November.[citation needed]
