Edgbarrow School

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Edgbarrow School is a secondary comprehensive school situated in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. The school is the main state secondary school in the area, and includes Edgbarrow Sixth Form College. It holds the title of a 'Business and Enterprise College' as a Specialist School for the region in this field.

1 Edgbarrow School
2 Edgbarrow School Site
3 Edgbarrow Sixth Form
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[edit] Edgbarrow School

Edgbarrow School Administration Centre

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Edgbarrow School has approximately 1100 pupils, who come mainly from Crowthorne Schools, such as Broadmoor School and Oaklands School. Whilst Crowthorne is a small town, it was this year oversubscribed ^[1]. The school teaches 11-16 year olds, and has some of the best results in Bracknell Forest at GCSE of any non-selective state schools ^[2].

[edit] Edgbarrow School Site

The school is on the boundary of Wildmoor Heath Nature Reserve and covers approximately 10,000m² ^[3]. The school has two large playing fields and one astro-turf, which are shared by Edgbarrow Sports Centre, run by Bracknell Forest Borough Council. The school is split into four main buildings:

the main block with a small quad consisting of English, Maths, Art, Languages, Drama, Music, CDT (ie. Electronics, Woodwork, Graphics etc)
Humanities, consisting of Geography, History, ICT (Computing etc), Religious Studies and the School Library
Science
Administration, consisting of the central office, conferencing facilities and reprographics.

The latter was constructed in late 2003, whilst the main body of the school was constructed throughout the previous forty years.

[edit] Edgbarrow Sixth Form

Edgbarrow Sixth Form Centre

Over 120 students ^[4] study at Edgbarrow Sixth Form. The college has trialled a Fingerprint Recognition system, which teachers have proclaimed to be successful ^[5]. As well as AS and A level subjects, students can also follow a GNVQ course at Edgbarrow Sixth Form, which is said to be an "equivalent" to four GCSEs ^[6]. The college is within the top 10% of A Level providers in Great Britain, and for this reason the school will begin construction of a new Sixth Form centre building to allow for the expected increase in student numbers.