Brookfield Community School is an academy school located on Chatsworth Road (A619) in the west of the town of Chesterfield, Derbyshire in England.
Brookfield Community School is a secondary school which caters for over 1300 students between the ages 11–18 (Years 7-13), including approximately 300 sixth formers.
The school's Ofsted inspection judged Brookfield to be a "Good" school. In 2007, it got the seventh best A level results in Derbyshire for state schools (3 of the top 7 were Chesterfield schools) getting results comparable to a state grammar school, and the fourth best at GCSE.
Brookfield Community School was formed in 1990 when schools in Chesterfield were reorganised, leaving five schools of the original eleven. On 1 April 2011, Brookfield Community School officially gained academy status.
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