Redbridge Community School
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Redbridge Community School is a mixed comprehensive school
in west Southampton
, Hampshire
, in the south of England
. The most recent Ofsted
inspection was on 4 May 2007, when the inspectors report praised the school saying "Redbridge provides outstanding quality education. Whilst the school modestly judges its overall effectiveness to be good, inspectors judge it to be excellent. Students speak very highly of their school and show considerable pride in it. Parents are happy with the provision that the school makes for their children."
According to the Department for Education and Skills performance tables, the school obtained the highest CVA score in the city, with a score of 1039.1, putting the school in the top 25% of schools in England. This is a new, complex Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 4 contextual value added
(CVA) score designed to show the progress children have made. This is done by comparing their achievements with those of other pupils nationally who had the same or similar prior attainment in their test results at age 10 or 11 in 2001.
The school is a Specialist Sports College
for 11 to 16 year olds.
The school was rebuilt using Private Finance Initiative
funding, and was completed in April 2003
A further 10 classrooms are to be built at the school as part of the extension 19 June the new classrooms will house the schools mathematics department all class rooms will have air con these will be the only classrooms that have air con apart from the school's ICT classrooms.
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
in west Southampton
Southampton
Southampton is the largest city in the county of Hampshire on the south coast of England, and is situated south-west of London and north-west of Portsmouth. Southampton is a major port and the closest city to the New Forest...
, Hampshire
Hampshire
Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, a historic cathedral city that was once the capital of England. Hampshire is notable for housing the original birthplaces of the Royal Navy, British Army, and Royal Air Force...
, in the south of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. The most recent Ofsted
Ofsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
inspection was on 4 May 2007, when the inspectors report praised the school saying "Redbridge provides outstanding quality education. Whilst the school modestly judges its overall effectiveness to be good, inspectors judge it to be excellent. Students speak very highly of their school and show considerable pride in it. Parents are happy with the provision that the school makes for their children."
According to the Department for Education and Skills performance tables, the school obtained the highest CVA score in the city, with a score of 1039.1, putting the school in the top 25% of schools in England. This is a new, complex Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 4 contextual value added
Contextual value added
Contextual value added is a statistic used by the government of the United Kingdom to assess the performance of schools.The statistic is intended to show the progress children have made whilst attending a particular school...
(CVA) score designed to show the progress children have made. This is done by comparing their achievements with those of other pupils nationally who had the same or similar prior attainment in their test results at age 10 or 11 in 2001.
The school is a Specialist Sports College
Sports College
Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, PE, sports and dance. Schools that successfully apply to the Specialist Schools Trust and become Sports...
for 11 to 16 year olds.
The school was rebuilt using Private Finance Initiative
Private Finance Initiative
The private finance initiative is a way of creating "public–private partnerships" by funding public infrastructure projects with private capital...
funding, and was completed in April 2003
Future plans with Redbridge Community School
As part of Southampton City Council's review of Secondary Education, called Learning Futures, it is proposed that the school will be expanded from September 2008, from 900 to 1050 pupils.A further 10 classrooms are to be built at the school as part of the extension 19 June the new classrooms will house the schools mathematics department all class rooms will have air con these will be the only classrooms that have air con apart from the school's ICT classrooms.