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Rushcliffe School is a comprehensive school

Comprehensive school

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in the Rushcliffe

Rushcliffe

Rushcliffe is a local government district with borough status in Nottinghamshire, England. Its council is based in West Bridgford. It was formed on 1 April 1974 by merging the West Bridgford Urban District, the Bingham Rural District and part of Basford Rural District.-Political representation:The...

district of Nottinghamshire

Nottinghamshire

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and is situated on Boundary Road in West Bridgford

West Bridgford

West Bridgford is a town in the Rushcliffe borough of Nottinghamshire, England. It lies immediately south of the city of Nottingham, delimited by the River Trent; this proximity means that it forms a continuous urban area with Nottingham, effectively makes West Bridgford a suburb of the city, and...

, one of the most wealthy areas in the county.

History

It opened in September 1969. The local education area was re-organised and the Rushcliffe Boys' Technical Grammar School and Rushcliffe Girls' Technical Grammar School, both on Boundary Road since 1961, merged.

In April 2011, Rushcliffe School adopted Foundation Status.

Admissions

It has specialist

Specialist school

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status as a Science College

Science College

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and a training school

Training school

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. It admits pupils from eleven to eighteen, but due to its popularity, places are oversubcribed. Pupils from primary schools in Ruddington

Ruddington

Ruddington is an English village situated five miles south of Nottingham in the Borough of Rushcliffe. It had a population of 6,441 at the 2001 UK census....

, West Bridgford, and Edwalton usually go to the school.

Facilities

The facilities are considered very good compared to most secondary school standards. It has two sports halls, 2 halls (A & B) and a 5 acres (20,234.3 m²) field. On top of this it is situated on the same site as Rushcliffe Leisure Centre giving students access to a swimming pool, gym, and badminton court facilities (These Facilities are used by the public) There is also a new dining hall which the pupils named EATZ. It was opened by Nottingham Forest player Guy Moussi

Guy Moussi

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and the mayor of Rushcliffe.

Boundary Road on which it is situated connects Loughborough Road (A60

A60 road

The A60 is a road linking Loughborough in Leicestershire, England, with Doncaster in South Yorkshire, via Nottingham.It takes the following route:*Loughborough**Rempstone**Costock**Bunny**Ruddington*West Bridgford*Nottingham**Sherwood**Arnold...

) to Melton Road (A606), and is in the far south of the West Bridgford area. Rushcliffe Leisure Centre is part of the school. Most swimming pools in the Rushcliffe district are jointly run with schools (similar to other districts of Nottinghamshire). The East Midlands Gymnastic and Sports Acrobatics Centre is also part of the leisure centre. The school has six computer room

Data center

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Headteachers

Mr.Cooper (1969-1982)
Mr.Chambers(1982-1997)
Mr.Gullis (1997-2010)
Mr.Crompton (2010-)

Notable alumni

Jacob Mellis
Jacob Mellis
Jacob Alexander Mellis is an English footballer currently playing for Chelsea where he usually plays as a midfielder.-Football career:...

Footballer on fringes of Chelsea first team.
Victoria Newton
Victoria Newton
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(1983-90), editor of the Bizarre column of The Sun
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- her father Don was deputy head master.
Adam Newbold
Adam Newbold
Adam Charles Newbold is an English footballer who plays as a striker. In December 2010, it was announced that he had agreed a deal to sign for Australian side Ballarat Red Devils...

Footballer recently released from Nottingham Forest Football Club.
Dan Jarvis
Dan Jarvis
Daniel Owen Woolgar Jarvis MBE is a British Labour Party politician and former British Army officer. After a career in the Parachute Regiment including most of the regiment's major deployments, he went into politics and has been the Member of Parliament for Barnsley Central since a by-election...

Labour MP Barnsley Central from March 2011.

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