Brookfield Community School is an

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located on Chatsworth Road (A619) in the west of

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, Derbyshire. The school's most recent

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inspection judged it to be 'requires improvement'.

Admissions

Brookfield Community School is a comprehensive

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which caters for around 1300 students between the ages 11–18 (Years 7-13), including approximately 300 sixth formers.

Academic performance

In the data for the year 2016/2017, the school had a Progress 8 score of -0.14, indicating that pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 had made less progress, on average, than pupils across England who got similar results at the end of

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. The same data shows 57% of pupils achieving a GCSE grade 5 or above in English & Maths.

History

Brookfield Community School's history stretches back to the founding of the Chesterfield Grammar School in 1598. This school taught boys throughout the 17th and 18th century, until its closure in 1832. In 1845, the school was restarted in a new building (which remains on Sheffield Road today, and is now part of

Chesterfield College Chesterfield College is a further and higher education college in the town of Chesterfield in North East Derbyshire, England. The college consists of a number of campuses including Infirmary Road and Lockoford Lane spread over the town of Cheste ...

), expanding to a size of around 500 in 1928. Additional land on Storrs Road (on the west side of the town) was acquired in the 1930s, but minimally used due to lack of funds and the Second World War. In 1949, work began on the levelling of playing fields on the site, which was opened in 1953. The present site of Brookfield (on Chatsworth Road/Brookside, adjacent to the Storrs Road playing fields) was opened for Chesterfield School in 1967. Following the

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, the school became a state-sponsored grammar school. Brookfield Community School was formed in 1991 in a re-organisation of schools in Chesterfield, On 1 April 2011, Brookfield Community School officially gained academy status.

Notable former pupils

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, musician and entertainer * Ryan Fletcher, musician

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, actor * Ellie Simpson, world para-athlete (100m World Number 2, 200m World Record Holder and GB medalist) and founder of CP Teens UK

Chesterfield Grammar School

* Chris Adams, former Derbyshire and England cricketer. * Sir

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* Francis Chavasse, Bishop of Liverpool from 1900–23 *

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, grandfather of Charles Darwin * Robert Waring Darwin of Elston, botanist * Sir

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, writer * Prof Sir William McCrea, astronomer * Geoff Miller, England cricketer * Charles Newcombe, cricketer * Professor Ian Newton, OBE FRS FRSE, former Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Monks Wood * Josiah Pearson, Bishop of Newcastle (Australia) from 1880–90 * Sir Robert Robinson FRSE, Nobel-prize winning organic chemist, and discoverer of the structure of morphine and

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, and invented the symbol for benzene in 1923 *

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, former Labour MP from 1964-7 for Meriden * Sir Robin Saxby, former Chief Executive of

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, who made it into a global giant *

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from 1758–68 * Captain Edwin Swale CBE DFC, WWI flying ace * Sir

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, and from 2001-13 of the

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, and Chairman from 1987-93 of HM Customs and Excise * Sir

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) from 1988–92 * Air Marshal Philip Wigglesworth *

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'' (1968) and ''

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'' (1988).

Notable former teachers

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, biologist; taught biology (1938–40) * Paul Holmes, History master (1979–83), Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield (2001–10) * Cec Thompson, former professional rugby league footballer; Head of Economics and Rugby Master (at the school for 17 years, retired 1991)

References

External links

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Brookfield in an Educational League Table

Ofsted Report (PDF file)

EduBase
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