Fairfield High School, Bristol

Farfield High School
Established 2015
Type Secondary Academy
Trust Excalibur Academies Trust
Headteacher Vanetta Spence
Location Allfoxton Road
Bristol
BS7 9NL
England
51°28′33″N 2°34′16″W / 51.4758°N 2.5712°W / 51.4758; -2.5712Coordinates: 51°28′33″N 2°34′16″W / 51.4758°N 2.5712°W / 51.4758; -2.5712
DfE URN 141705 Tables
Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports
Capacity 1080 (Data from January 2016)
Students 733 (Data from January 2016)
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–16
Website fairfield.bristol.sch.uk

Fairfield High School is an Academy secondary school in Horfield, Bristol, England. The schools catchment area is Horfield, Lockleaze and Eastville.

History

The previous school building in Fairlawn Road, Montpelier, before relocating to Allfoxton Road, Horfield

In 2000, against a background of opposition by Bristol City Council to selective education and declining academic results,[1] Fairfield closed as a grammar school and reopened as a comprehensive, being renamed Fairfield High School. In 2006, the new school moved to new purpose-designed buildings at Stottbury Road, Bristol.[2] One reason for the move was that the existing site had room for only some five hundred pupils, a number which was considered to be too low.[3]

Academic achievement

The school has improved its results year on year and achieved its best ever GCSE scores in 2012, the table below shows the percentage of students hitting the key measure of 5 A*-C including English and Mathematics. [4]

Year 2009 2010 2011 2012
School 43%49%50%52%
Local authority schools 40.2%46.2%50.2%51.6%
England - all schools 49.8%53.5%59%59.4%

Notable former pupils

References

  1. ↑ Education: School League Tables 1998 Fairfield Grammar School at bbc.co.uk, accessed 25 November 2008
  2. ↑ The new Fairfield High School at oldfairfieldians.org.uk, accessed 25 November 2008
  3. ↑ ST5974 : Fairfield School, Montpelier, Bristol at geograph.org.uk, accessed 25 November 2008
  4. ↑ http://www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/schools/performance/school.pl?urn=109290 Fairfield High School
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