Lister Community School

Lister Community School is a co-educational secondary school located at St Mary's Road, Plaistow, Newham, London. The school uses vertical tutoring to integrate the community of students across the range of ages and year groups. It is one of a few schools in Newham that provides specialist British sign language interpreters for students who have hearing impairments. History The school was founded by West Ham Council in 1921 as Livingstone Day Continuation Institute, in Balaam Street Congregational schoolroom. It relocated a few times, was briefly absorbed into North West Ham Technical School after World War II, and was successively renamed as Lister Day-Continuation Institute (1933), Lister Technical School (1956), Lister Comprehensive (1972) and finally Lister Community School. Purpose-built facilities for the school were completed in the 1990s. In 2003, pupils staged a walk-out in protest against the invasion of Iraq.