Established 1910 Headteacher Mr Andrew Hunt Gender Mixed Number of students 1,280 | Type Academy Chair of Governors Mr Mark Shearing Phone +44 115 973 2438 Founded 1972 | |
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Location Thoresby Road
Derbyshire
NG10 3NP
England Address Thoresby Rd, Long Eaton, Nottingham NG10 3NP, UK Motto Opening Doors To The Future Similar Wilsthorpe Community School, Trent College, Friesland School, Dovedale Primary School, Grange Primary School | ||
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The Long Eaton School is a secondary Academy on Thoresby Road in Long Eaton located between Nottingham and Derby.
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History
The £14,900 school opened on October 29, 1910 as the Long Eaton Higher Elementary School and Pupil Teachers' Centre on Tamworth Road. 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). 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 The Long Eaton School in 1999.
New site
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. It was built under the same PFI contract as Newbold Community School in Chesterfield.
It is a specialist science college, with an Eco status. The school recently had a new building built in 2005 and was visited by Gordon Brown on November 10, 2006 for the official opening. In September 2007, the school had to close for two days due to a water contamination of Legionnaire's disease.
Recent successes
The school achieves 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. Subsequent inspections in 2012 and 2015 both judged the school to be Good.
Recent visitors to the school have included Hilary Benn MP, Ellie Simmons, Fergal Keane, Frank Gardner, Professor Alexander Martynov (Russian space scientist), Tristram Hunt MP and Andy Haldane (Chief Economist at the Bank of England). The school now has links with partners in Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Germany, UAE, Cuba, China, Czech Republic, Canada and the USA.
Academy status
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.
In 2016 the school was approved as an Academy sponsor, and created a multi-Academy Trust operating under the name The Northworthy Trust.
Observatory
Building on its specialism in Science, the school has developed expertise in Astronomy, and now offers the subject at a GCSE as well as through evening community and "family learning" events. It is part of two national programmes - Leading Space Education and Astroschools. In July 2011 work began on building The Malcolm Parry Observatory, a project funded partly by The Wolfson Foundation, which was opened in 2012.