[3] As with other schools, latest exam results and related data are published in the Department for Education's national tables.

In the most populous areas of Surrey, (e.g. Sutton, Wimbledon and Richmond) parents were for the most part obliged to be content to give their children an Elementary education.

The school began with a headmaster and five assistant masters, with visiting staff for the teaching of Art, Singing, French and German.

[8] The Technical Institute continued up to the Second World War when it was put on a war-time basis and used as an A.R.P and ambulance depot.

[5] Like his predecessors, Grahame Pryce Rawlings (1912 – 17 April 1993)[11][12] was educated at Oxford where he gained his MA in mathematics and represented Hertford College at Rugby Union.

[9] During the Second World War he joined the RAFVR, became a Spitfire pilot, and rose to the rank of Wing Commander.

[14] After the war Rawlings remained in the Air Force, transferring to a commission as Flight Lieutenant, Technical Branch, in 1948.

[19] Prior to joining the school he was Director of Studies at the naval training establishment HMS Worcester.

[12] The Jubilee of Richmond County School was celebrated in 1956 and a fund launched towards the building of a new Library, completed in 1958.

Also in 1956 Mr Rawlings established the school motto Enrich the Time to Come taken from the last scene of Shakespeare's Richard III.

During 1957 a new laboratory, prep room and two classrooms were added and the school electricity supply changed from DC to AC.

With dwindling pupil numbers and some staff increasingly sharing roles across Richmond and Shene sites, the remaining pupils and staff of Richmond County School for Girls merged with the remainder of the boys' school at the Shene site in 1974.

In August 2010 Richmond upon Thames Council announced that the Department for Education had approved the proposal to grant the school status as an Academy.

[1] Shene School closed and in September 2010 Richmond Park Academy opened on the same site.

As a result of unsatisfactory attainment over several years, an Ofsted report in September 2007 gave Shene School Notice to Improve.

[citation needed] An Ofsted monitoring inspection conducted in December 2011, 15 months after the school re-opened as an Academy, noted that the school had 'made good progress in raising standards' and that 'Teaching is improving, with an increasing proportion that is good or outstanding'.