New Mills School Business and Enterprise College

New Mills School & Sixth Form
Motto Let Right Be Done
Established 1912
Type Community school
Headteacher Debbie McGloin
Location Church Lane, New Mills
High Peak
Derbyshire
SK22 4NR
England England
Coordinates: 53°22′01″N 1°59′49″W / 53.367°N 1.997°W / 53.367; -1.997
Local authority Derbyshire
DfE number ???/4057
DfE URN 112936 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Staff 59
Students 824
Gender Co-educational
Ages 11–18
Houses Derwent, Kinder, Lantern
Colours Black
Former name New Mills Grammar School
New Mills School Business and Enterprise College
Website Official Website

New Mills School Business & Enterprise College is a comprehensive school, situated in the town of New Mills, in the northwest of Derbyshire.

Admissions

The school teaches pupils from Year 7 to Year 13. The school was given its title as Business and Enterprise College in 2005 and this status was renewed in 2009.

The school's main feeder primary schools are New Mills, Newtown, St George's, Thornsett, Hayfield, Hague Bar and St Mary's.

History

Grammar school

The school was opened in 1912 as the New Mills Grammar School and celebrated its 100th birthday in 2012. It had around 500 boys and girls in the early 1960s, then 600 by 1964, and 700 by 1969, with a sixth form of 200.

Comprehensive

The grammar school merged with Spring Bank Secondary Modern School in September 1970 to become a comprehensive of 1,200 pupils, known as New Mills School. By 1990, it had around 900 pupils, and a sixth form of 150. The school was the only member of the Peak 11 Federation to open on February 3, 2009. In its most recent Ofsted inspection the school was taken out of special measures.

Headteachers

Subjects

There are 21 subjects at New Mills School, taught by 59 teachers in 8 different buildings and 50 rooms: rooms 5–19, Music 1–2, Language 1–4, Maths 1–6, Sixth Form 1–5, Drama 1–2, Art 1–3, the Gym, Workshop 1–2, Food 1–2, 8 Science labs and a construction centre.

Notable former pupils

New Mills Grammar School

New Mills Secondary School

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