New free school Fulham Boys is proving popular with parents after 650 people attended its first open day.
The school, set up by the London Diocesan Board for Schools for boys aged 11 to 18, is due to open in a temporary home in Fulham next autumn.
Governors are expected to announce more details shortly as they continue to look for a permanent site.
The school will specialise in enterprise, and sport will also play a prominent role in the curriculum.
At the open day at Fulham Palace on Wednesday last week, prospective pupils from across London took part in boxing, rowing and kurling, which is curling without the ice.
Headteacher Alun Ebenezer said: “The school will be built upon Christian principles and values.
“These values include generosity, kindness, justice, fairness, inclusiveness, self-control and hard work.
“We are not elitist. I am a free-school-meal boy from a back street in Ebbw Vale, Wales. I passionately believe that a person’s postcode should not determine where they end up in life.
“I believe in comprehensive education and that education is transformational, it can change a person’s life.”
Barrister Caroline Grieve, wife of Attorney General Dominic Grieve, and Elizabeth Phillips, headteacher at St Marylebone CofE School, have been appointed as two governors.
Applications are being taken now for 120 places in year seven in September 2014. Visit www.lbhf.gov.uk/admissions .
