Fairfield High School, Bristol

Farfield High School

Address

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
Information
Type	Secondary Academy
Established	2000
Trust	Excalibur Academies Trust
Department for Education URN	141705 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Amanda Bridgewater
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 16
Enrolment	733 (Data from January 2016)
Capacity	1080 (Data from January 2016)
Website	http://www.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.

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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
Cary Grant, actor
Peter Holmström, musician
Laya Lewis, actress
Alex Beresford, weatherman

References

^ Education: School League Tables 1998 Fairfield Grammar School at bbc.co.uk, accessed 25 November 2008
^ The new Fairfield High School^{[permanent dead link]} 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

v t e Education in Bristol
General	Education in Bristol List of schools in Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers
Primary schools	Bishop Road Primary School Bridge Learning Campus Merchants' Academy
Secondary schools	Ashton Park School Bedminster Down School Blaise High School Bridge Learning Campus Bristol Brunel Academy Bristol Cathedral Choir School Bristol Free School Bristol Metropolitan Academy City Academy Bristol Cotham School Fairfield High School Merchants' Academy Montpelier High School 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 Trinity Academy
Independent schools	Badminton School Bristol Grammar School Carmel Christian School Clifton College Clifton High School Collegiate School Queen Elizabeth's Hospital Redmaids' High School
Special schools	Bristol Gateway School Kingsweston School
Further education	City of Bristol College North Bristol Post 16 Centre St. Brendan's Sixth Form College South Gloucestershire and Stroud College
Higher education	Bristol Old Vic Theatre School Trinity College University of Bristol The University of Law University of the West of England
Defunct institutions	Andalusia Academy Fairfield Grammar School Merrywood Grammar School Redland High School St Christopher's School St Ursula's School Wesley College

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