Court Fields School is located in

Wellington, Somerset Wellington is a market town in rural Somerset, a county in the west of England, situated south west of Taunton in the Somerset West and Taunton district, near the border with Devon, which runs along the Blackdown Hills to the south of the t ...

, England. Court Fields is home to the “Theatre Of Leaves”, which is known to be one of the most atmospheric football grounds in the United Kingdom. The school teaches 753 pupils from 11 to 16, and does not contain a

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History

Since 2005, major developments have occurred. A new block was built for the teaching of Humanities and a sports complex has been constructed in place of the old tennis courts. In January 2013, the school was placed into

special measures Special measures is a status applied by regulators of public services in Britain to providers who fall short of acceptable standards. In education (England and Wales) Ofsted, the schools inspection agency for England and some British Overseas Ter ...

by Ofsted, following an inspection in November 2012 that rated the school as inadequate on a four-point scale of outstanding, good, satisfactory and inadequate. In 2016 it was rated as requiring improvement. The school became a Sponsored Academy from January 2014 in partnership with the Castle School, Taunton.

Notable former pupils

At the 2016 Summer Olympics a former pupil

Edward Ling Edward Ling (born 7 March 1983) is an English sport shooter who represented Great Britain at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics, and 2016 Summer Olympics. Ling was born in Taunton, Somerset. At the 2004 Summer Olympics ...

won a bronze medal in

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. Another former pupil Tom Nichols is a professional

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who plays as a striker for

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. Another former pupil is Paul Williams the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham.

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* {{authority control Secondary schools in Somerset Academies in Somerset Wellington, Somerset