Normanhurst School has been an integral part of the history of North Chingford since its foundation in 1923 in the Ridgeway.  The School later moved to its present site in Station Road soon after.

The School operated as normally as possible during the Blitz (one of our specialist rooms was a bomb shelter and held 100 people in a space 20 feet by 12 feet), but due to particularly heavy bombing there was some damage to school buildings.  As a consquence certain classes operated from local parent's homes for a short while.

After the localised bombing during the 1944 V1 and V2 attacks, around 60 Normanhurst children and most of the staff were evacuated to the Praa Sands Hotel near Marazion in Cornwall. The crator from a V2 bomb can still be seen half a mile from us next to the Royal Forest Hotel!  The return took place early in 1945.
    
Normanhurst has a long history of providing education for boys and girls from Waltham Abbey, Loughton, Chingford, Epping and mid Essex, to Walthamstow, Leyton, Enfield, Bethnal Green and into the City of London.  It is proud of its traditions, its academic results and its reputation as one of the main “family” schools of the district. 

In 1996 Normanhurst became part of the Oak-Tree Group of Schools and under the ownership of the Hagger Family looks forward to many more years of service to the community.  The Oak-Tree Schools are a powerful group of local independent schools, comprising Oaklands School in Loughton (founded 1937), Coopersale Hall School in Epping (founded by Mr Hagger in 1989) and Normanhurst School.  Both Oaklands and Coopersale Hall are junior schools for children from two and a half to eleven, and all three schools are operated with the same aims of excellence and care. Mr Nicholas Hagger is a poet, philosopher and author of many books, Mrs Ann Hagger was Headmistress of Oaklands from 1982 to 1996 and Mr Matthew Hagger is the Managing Principal of the three Schools.
 
We are proud of our traditions, our academic results and our reputation as one of the main ‘family’ schools of the district.

With its convenient location, Normanhurst is on a broad tree-lined suburban street with ample parking.  Just two minutes’ walk from the British Rail and bus station, the School is accessible to families coming from Waltham Abbey, Loughton, Chingford, and mid-Essex, to Walthamtow, Leyton, Bethnal Green, Enfield, Buckhurst Hill, Palmers Green and Southgate.