Brookfield Community School is a school located on Chatsworth Road (A619) in the town of Chesterfield, Derbyshire in England.

[edit] Admissions

Brookfield Community School is a secondary school and a Sports College which caters for over 1300 students between the ages 11-18 (Years 7-13), including approximately 300 sixth formers. The current headteacher is Mr. R J Barr.

[edit] Academic performance

The school's recent Ofsted inspection judged Brookfield to be an "Outstanding" school, with only Long Eaton and Ecclesbourne being the other schools in the county to receive such a grade.^[1] In 2007, it got the seventh best A level results in Derbyshire for state schools (3 of the top 7 were Chesterfield schools) getting results comparable to a state grammar school, and the fourth best at GCSE.

[edit] History

The school was previously known as Chesterfield Boys Grammar School, a free grammar school, established in 1594 during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and then Chesterfield School after the abandonment of selection in Derbyshire in the 1970s. A school annexe with laboratories known as Brookside, was built in 1963 next to existing school playing fields with facilities and became the location for sixth form science. After expansion, the entire grammar school was moved to the new site in 1967. Chesterfield School was renamed Brookfield Community School in 1990 when schools in Chesterfield were reorganised, leaving five schools of the original eleven.

[edit] Facilities

The school has: • Chesterfield's running track.^[2] • A Swimming Pool • A Sixth Form Block • A Sports Hall and Gym

[edit] Alumni

[edit] As Chesterfield Grammar School

• Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins
• Charles Balguy, physician
• Prof John Birds, Professor of Law at the University of Manchester
• B. V. Bowden, Baron Bowden, Principal of UMIST 1953-76
• Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin
• Sir John Fretwell, UK Ambassador to France 1982-7
• Michael A Hadfield OBE JP FCA
• Alan Hoole OBE, Governor of Anguilla 1995-7
• Richard Kirk CBE, Chief Executive since 1996 of Peacocks
• Professor Sir William McCrea, astronomer
• Geoff Miller, England cricketer
• Sir Robert Robinson, Nobel-prize winning organic chemist, and discoverer of the structure of Morphine and Penicillin
• Christopher Rowland, former Labour MP for Meriden
• Nicholas Scholte, Chief Executive of the NHS Business Services Authority
• Sir William Urton MBE
• Bob Wilson, goalkeeper and former BBC presenter of Football Focus
• Charles Wood, scriptwriter

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Brookfield in an Educational League Table
• Ofsted Report (PDF file)
• EduBase