Fairfield High School (Bristol)

Fairfield High School
Motto Achieving Excellence
Established 2000
Headteacher Catriona Mangham
Chair of Governors Mr Alan Palmer
Specialism Performing and Visual Arts
Location Allfoxton Road
Bristol
BS7 9NL
Local authority Bristol City Council
DfE URN 109290
Ofsted Reports
Students 930
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–16
Website www.fairfield.bristol.sch.uk

Fairfield High School is a state secondary school in Horfield, Bristol, England. It has 930 pupils aged 11 to 16.

History

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]

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

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