Fairfield High School, Bristol

Farfield High School

Established	2015
Type	Secondary Academy
Trust	Excalibur Academies Trust
Headteacher	Catriona Mangham
Location	Allfoxton Road Bristol BS7 9NL England Coordinates: 51°28′33″N 2°34′16″W / 51.4758°N 2.5712°W / 51.4758; -2.5712
DfE number	801/4101
DfE URN	141705 Tables
Ofsted	Reports Pre-academy reports
Capacity	1080 (Data from January 2015)
Students	631 (Data from January 2015)
Gender	Mixed
Ages	11–16
Website	fairfield.bristol.sch.uk

Fairfield High School is an Academy secondary school in Horfield, Bristol, England. The schools catchment area is Horfield, Lockleaze and Eastville.

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]

Academic achievement

The school has improved its results year on year and achieved its best ever GCSE scores in 2012, the table below shows the percentage of students hitting the key measure of 5 A*-C including English and Mathematics. ^[4]

Year	2009	2010	2011	2012
School	43%	49%	50%	52%
Local authority schools	40.2%	46.2%	50.2%	51.6%
England - all schools	49.8%	53.5%	59%	59.4%

Notable Former Pupils

Victor Eyles FRSE, geologist and science historian

References

↑ Education: School League Tables 1998 Fairfield Grammar School at bbc.co.uk, accessed 25 November 2008
↑ The new Fairfield High School at oldfairfieldians.org.uk, accessed 25 November 2008
↑ ST5974 : Fairfield School, Montpelier, Bristol at geograph.org.uk, accessed 25 November 2008
↑ http://www.education.gov.uk/cgi-bin/schools/performance/school.pl?urn=109290 Fairfield High School

External links

Official website

Education in Bristol Including establishments with sites in the Bristol Local Authority

General	Education in Bristol List of schools in Bristol

Primary and junior schools	Bishop Road Primary School Bridge Learning Campus

Secondary schools	Ashton Park School Bedminster Down School Bridge Learning Campus Bristol Brunel Academy Bristol Cathedral Choir School Bristol Free School Bristol Metropolitan Academy The City Academy Bristol Colston's Girls' School Cotham School Fairfield High School Henbury School Merchants' Academy Oasis Academy Brightstowe Oasis Academy Brislington Oasis Academy John Williams Orchard School Bristol Redland Green School St Bede's Catholic College St Bernadette Catholic Secondary School St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School

Independent schools	Andalusia Academy Badminton School Bristol Grammar School Carmel Christian School Clifton College Clifton High School Colston's School Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Redland High School The Red Maids' School

Special schools	Bristol Gateway School Kingsweston School St Christopher's School

Former schools	Fairfield Grammar School St Ursula's School Merrywood Grammar School

Further education & sixth form colleges	City of Bristol College North Bristol Post 16 Centre St. Brendan's Sixth Form College South Gloucestershire and Stroud College

Universities	University of Bristol The University of Law University of the West of England

Other higher education centres	Bristol Old Vic Theatre School

Theological colleges	Trinity College Wesley College

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