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Bishop Douglass School is a Voluntary aided, Roman Catholic Academy for girls and boys, situated in Finchley, Barnet, London. The school is under the trusteeship of the Cardinal Hume Academies Trust. Its current Headmaster is Mr Martin Tissot.HistoryBishop Douglass opened with Voluntary Aided status as a mixed secondary modern Roman Catholic school in Hamilton Road in 1963. In 1969 it merged with the independent Manor House Convent School in the near-by East End Road, which thereafter housed the sixth form of the expanded school. New buildings were added in Hamilton Road in 1969, 1973, 1976 and 1982, when there were 1,140 pupils on the roll. The founding headmaster, Michael Caulfield, was at the time of his appointment the youngest of any school in the UK. He was succeeded by his deputy, John Meadows in the early 1990's, who retired in 2001. After a year with a temporary head and the school was faced with closure, Angela Murphy became the school's first headmistress in 2003. At the time of Ms Murphy’s appointment in 2003 the school was under 'special measures'. Since this date standards have consistently improved. Bishop Douglass was taken out of Special Measures following HMI Inspection in December 2005 and in its most recent Ofsted Inspection the following comments were given “a Good school of which students, parents, staff and governors are proud of” In 2007, the School was granted Specialist Science College status, and was renewed in 2010. Under the Academies Act 2010, in 2016, Bishop Douglass became an Academy under the trusteeship of the Cardinal Hume Academies Trust. The school's current Headmaster, former pupil Mr Martin Tissot, is also Headmaster of the other schools in the Trust - St George's Roman Catholic Secondary School in Maida Vale and St Thomas More Catholic School, Wood Green.