Ark Evelyn Grace Academy is a non-selective, coeducational secondary school in Brixton, in the London borough of Lambeth.

[3] The school, which won the Stirling Prize in 2011, was designed by renowned architect Zaha Hadid, who described her post-modernist style as parametricism.

The rest of the site is taken up by a gym, an art block, a series of all-weather pitches, and a 100 meter running track.

[6] The planned intake by London standards is tiny; each of the two houses, "Evelyn" and "Grace", could accommodate 270 pupils (one form entry).

[7] Between 2012 and 2014 changes were made by the incoming principal Devon Hanson, who moved from Jamaica to Peckham at ten years old, who took a more community approach.

He observed that the local students would work hard but at the first sign of rejection or failure they would stop trying; he saw they needed to be taught "resilience".