Ashfield School, Kirkby-in-Ashfield
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| Motto | Aspire |
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| Established | 1964 |
| Type | Academy |
| Religion | Mixed |
| Headteacher | Mr. J Maher |
| Location |
Sutton Road Kirkby-in-Ashfield Nottinghamshire NG17 8HP England 53°06′36″N 1°16′13″W / 53.11011°N 1.27032°WCoordinates: 53°06′36″N 1°16′13″W / 53.11011°N 1.27032°W |
| DfE URN | 137981 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 2,500 approx. |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–19 |
| Houses | Byron, Chesterfield, Coates, Hargreaves, Trent and Thoroton |
| Colours | Yellow (Byron), Green (Chesterfield), Red (Coates), Purple (Hargreaves), Blue (Trent) and Orange (Thoroton) |
| Website | www |
Ashfield School is a secondary school with academy status located in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, which educates children ages 11–19.
Ashfield has approximately 2,500 students, split into six houses - Trent, Chesterfield, Thoroton, Byron, Hargreaves and Coates. The six houses contain students from all year groups except those who are from the sixth form.
September 2007 saw the opening of a multimillion-pound Post-16 Centre offering A-level courses as well as vocational studies. Ashfield School offers a sixth form provision in consortium with Kirkby College, Quarrydale Academy and Sutton Community Academy. The consortium offers an extended range of sixth form courses for students over the 4 school sites.
The current head teacher of the school is Mr. J Maher.
Ashfield School was chosen as a training ground for the London 2012 Olympics due to its vast amount of sports facilities.
Built in 1964 as Nottinghamshire's first purpose built comprehensive school, Ashfield School now has a self-contained 40-acre (160,000 m2) rural campus. Facilities include computer suites, an ICT Centre, on-site sports facilities including four gymnasiums, tennis courts, all weather sports fields, running track and a swimming pool. For food, students can visit the on-site canteen named the Jeff Lacey centre (JLC). Other resources on-site include music studios, a tiered theatre and drama complex, photographic darkroom, print making and ceramics studios, fifteen science laboratories, a business centre, a CAD/CAM centre, library and careers library.
Late 2012 saw the opening of a new music and drama block following the destruction of the previous blocks earlier in the year. In January 2013 a new study area/library and classrooms was built onto the sixth form block, this is named the Resource Centre.
The Ashfield Skills Centre is a £7.1 million project which delivers six learning environments. The centre includes:
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