newent community school and sixth form centre
Newent
The Newent Grammar School was founded in 1925 and was cited at the crossroads in
the building that is now the Community Centre. On 1st April 1965 Newent School
was founded and moved into Gloucestershire’s first purpose built comprehensive
school on our current site. We welcomed hundreds of previous students back to
our 50th Anniversary Celebration in April 2015 and will look forward to
celebrating our 60th Anniversary in 2025. The layout of the school is dominated
by the spacious Main Hall, equipped with stage lighting and sound system. There
is a continuous programme of refurbishment and improvement to ensure up to date
facilities in specialist areas. In recent years we have completed ESFA funded
projects including the refurbishment of the School’s kitchen and Meet n Eat
facility, the replacement of windows to majority of the buildings, new perimeter
fencing and a comprehensive CCTV systems that covers the entire site. In 2017 we
undertook work on a capital investment of c £1million which included building a
new Sixth Form Centre. Students joining our Sixth Form in September 2018 were
the first to benefit from this new facility.
