Westfield Community School, Yeovil
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Westfield Community School is a secondary school
in Yeovil
, Somerset
, England.
The school, which has specialist Science College
status, has 870 students aged between 11 and 16 years. In August 2011, it became an academy. It is situated north of Summerlands Hospital.
for around 400 boys run by Somerset Education Committee.
. Westfield School utilised the buildings of the former Yeovil High School and Summerlands Infant School, which were located on opposite sides of a large playing field. The displaced primary school moved to the Summerleaze site, and became Parcroft Junior School. In 2010 the schools combined to form Oaklands Primary School.
In 2010, the school announced plans to build a number of sports field on the old Westfield Infants School, which will be demolished.
In the summer of 2011, the school announced its best ever GCSE exam results, with 79% of the school leavers achieving 5 GCSEs at A*-C. In addition, 56% of the students gained 5 GCSEs at grades A* - C including English and Maths. These results considerably outstripped the other secondary schools in Yeovil.
Secondary school
Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...
in Yeovil
Yeovil
Yeovil is a town and civil parish in south Somerset, England. The parish had a population of 27,949 at the 2001 census, although the wider urban area had a population of 42,140...
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, England.
The school, which has specialist Science College
Science College
Science Colleges were introduced in 2002 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, science and mathematics...
status, has 870 students aged between 11 and 16 years. In August 2011, it became an academy. It is situated north of Summerlands Hospital.
Grammar school
Yeovil School was a two form-entry grammar schoolGrammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
for around 400 boys run by Somerset Education Committee.
Comprehensive
The school was created as a comprehensive school in 1975 following the abandonment of Grammar School education in the Yeovil area. The school was an amalgamation of the first to fifth forms of Yeovil High School, Yeovil School and Summerleaze Secondary Modern School. The Sixth Forms were relocated to Yeovil CollegeYeovil College
Yeovil College is a tertiary institution and further education college based in Yeovil, Somerset, England. Its main campus is on Mudford Road, Yeovil, but the College also operates the North Dorset Skills Centre in Shaftesbury and the Construction Skills Centre, Lufton, Yeovil, not far from the...
. Westfield School utilised the buildings of the former Yeovil High School and Summerlands Infant School, which were located on opposite sides of a large playing field. The displaced primary school moved to the Summerleaze site, and became Parcroft Junior School. In 2010 the schools combined to form Oaklands Primary School.
In 2010, the school announced plans to build a number of sports field on the old Westfield Infants School, which will be demolished.
In the summer of 2011, the school announced its best ever GCSE exam results, with 79% of the school leavers achieving 5 GCSEs at A*-C. In addition, 56% of the students gained 5 GCSEs at grades A* - C including English and Maths. These results considerably outstripped the other secondary schools in Yeovil.
Yeovil School
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