Crestwood Community School (known as Crestwood College prior to its name change in August 2017) is a
coeducational
Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...
secondary school, located in
Eastleigh
Eastleigh is a town in Hampshire, England, between Southampton and Winchester. It is the largest town and the administrative seat of the Borough of Eastleigh, with a population of 24,011 at the 2011 census.
The town lies on the River Itchen, ...
in the
English county of
Hampshire
Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...
. Crestwood is a split-site school, operating two campuses on Shakespeare Road and Cherbourg Road.
It is a
community school administered by
Hampshire County Council
Hampshire County Council (HCC) is an English council that governs eleven of the thirteen districts geographically located within the ceremonial county of Hampshire. As one of twenty-four county councils in England, it acts as the upper tier of ...
, which coordinates the school's admissions. The school specialises in Business and Enterprise.
Crestwood Community School offers
GCSEs
The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a particular subject, taken in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. State schools in Scotland use the Scottish Qualifications Certificate instead. Private sc ...
and
BTECs as programmes of study for pupils.
The school operates two SEN resourced provisions: a Specific Learning Difficulties provision on the Shakespeare Road campus and a Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs provision on the Cherbourg Road campus. The SEMH provision is delivered in partnership with Cherbourg Primary School.
In March 2016, it was announced that the nearby
Quilley School would be closed and that Crestwood would expand — as of September 2016 — to deliver 11–16 education across two sites.
Notable former pupils
*
Scott Mills, radio DJ
References
External links
Crestwood Community School official website
Secondary schools in Hampshire
Eastleigh
Community schools in Hampshire
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