| Motto | Opening Doors To The Future |
|---|---|
| Established | 1910 |
| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Mr Neil Calvert |
| Chair of Governors | Mr Tim Gallimore |
| Specialism | Science and Applied Learning[1] |
| Location | Thoresby Road Derbyshire NG10 3NP England |
| Local authority | Derbyshire |
| Students | 1,300 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses | Calke, Chatsworth, Hardwick, Sudbury |
| Website | longeaton.derbyshire.sch.uk |
The Long Eaton School is a secondary comprehensive Academy on Thoresby Road in Long Eaton located between Nottingham and Derby.
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The £14,900 school opened on October 29 1910 as the Long Eaton Higher Elementary School and Pupil Teachers' Centre on Tamworth Road.[2] The first headmaster was Samuel Clegg. The school was created for Clegg on the recommendation of Prof. Michael Sadler (who was to go on and found universities)..[2] In 1913, the school became known as Long Eaton County Secondary School. In 1916, school dinners were introduced, with most of the vegetables being grown on site. In 1918, school leaving age is raised from 12 to 14.
In 1945, it became the Long Eaton Grammar School. In 1972, it merged with the nearby Roper Secondary Modern School, built in 1964, to become a comprehensive school. In 1989, it was renamed the Long Eaton Community School, to return to being known as Long Eaton School in 1999.
On February 14 2006, the former building which had been the grammar school on Tamworth Road (B6540), close to Long Eaton's centre, was closed. Part of the old buildings were demolished for housing. That part was previously used for years 10-11(ages 15-16) and also the Sixth Form. A brand new £15m school was built, under PFI funding by Babcock & Brown, adjacent to the former Roper School site, on the other side of the Erewash Canal. The new school is accessible via a footbridge over the canal. The former buildings of the Roper School were demolished. The new school is surrounded by a large security fence reminiscent of a prison. It was built under the same PFI contract as Newbold Community School in Chesterfield.
It is a specialist science college, with an Eco status.[3] The school recently had a new building built in 2005 and was visited by Gordon Brown on November 10 2006 for the official opening.[4] In September 2007, the school had to close for two days due to a water contamination of Legionnaire's disease,[5] which was dealt with very efficiently and school resumed with clean water shortly after.
The school achieves well-above average results GCSE, and broadly-average results at A level. It has around 1,300 pupils. Ofsted inspections in 2006 and 2009 both judged the school to be Outstanding, and a Best Practice visit in 2009 focussed on the use of assessment in English.
Recent visitors to the school have included Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for the Environment; Ellie Simmons, dual Paraplympic gold medallist; Feargal Keane OBE; Frank Gardner OBE and Professor Alexander Martynov, Russian space scientist. The school now has links with partners in Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Germany, UAE, Cuba, China, Czech Republic, Canada and the USA.
The school consulted on conversion to Academy status as an Outstanding school, under the provisions of the Academies Act 2010, in the autumn of 2010. Although the process was made more complex by the school's PFI arrangements, conversion took place in April 2011. The Academy does not have a sponsor, and has retained the name The Long Eaton School.
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