Westfield School (Sheffield)

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Westfield School is a non-denominational secondary school in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It has (2005) 1266 pupils in the 11-16 age group.

[edit] History

Eckington County Secondary School opened in 1930 in Halfway, then in Derbyshire, on the site now occupied by Morrisons. It became Eckington Grammar School in 1945, with the associated Killamarsh Secondary Modern.

Westfield Comprehensive School came into existence in 1957 as the first comprehensive school in Derbyshire. There were two sites: a new site in Mosborough and the existing Eckington Grammar School (which became the Lower School). Frank Rollinson, appointed headmaster of the Grammar School in 1953, oversaw its conversion into a comprehensive school.

In 1967 Sheffield extended its boundaries to include Mosborough. After peaking at just under 2000 in 1977, Westfield's roll declined in the 1980s and the Lower School at Halfway was demolished in 1989.^[1]