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Fairfield Grammar School

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The school occupied a triangular site in Montpelier, Bristol, being bounded by Fairlawn Road to the west, Fairfield Road to the south east, and Falkland Road to the north west. To the north was an area of railway land. There were no on-site playing fields, but there was a hard-surfaced playground to
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In 2000, against a background of opposition by Bristol City Council to selective education and declining academic results, Fairfield closed as a grammar school and reopened as a comprehensive, being renamed Fairfield High School. In 2006, the new school moved to new purpose-designed buildings at
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which was described as having a "towering collection of gables". Coeducational from the beginning, it was intended for children who would stay at school until the age of sixteen or seventeen. Its aim was stated as being to give
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In March 1918, the school's most notable son, Archie Leach, was expelled at the age of fourteen for sneaking into the girls' lavatories. He went on to become the film star
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Stottbury Road, Bristol. One reason for the move was that the existing site had room for only some five hundred pupils, a number which was considered to be too low.
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To mark the school's centenary in 1998, Ross Gilkes, a former Fairfield history master, wrote a school history which was published by the Old Fairfieldians Society.
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at redlandgreen.bristol.sch.uk, accessed 25 November 2008: "Please note that we are no longer located at Fairlawn Road, Montpelier, Bristol BS6 5JW"
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1 per term, but a quarter of the places in the school were available to non-fee-paying students, who were selected by an annual competition.
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to Development Control (Central) committee meeting on 10 July 2002 at bristol.gov.uk, accessed 25 November 2008
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Dayley Lawrence, Labour Party politician. Mayor of Patchway (2022 - date) Mayor of Bradley Stoke (2023-2024)
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In 2007, the former Fairfield Grammar School buildings in Fairlawn Road were used by the new Redland Green
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New schools' costs 'keep rising' / Three school-building projects in Bristol have gone £2m over budget
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When the Higher Grade School opened in 1898, it had one hundred and eighty pupils. There were fees of
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Flagship schools on the horizon Two new secondary schools have opened in Bristol this month
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Fairfield — The Life of a School (Bristol, Old Fairfieldians Society,
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Bristol finally unveils statue to its most famous son: Archie Leach
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was planning to move the new Fairfield High School to a new site.
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Education: School League Tables 1998 Fairfield Grammar School
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Sir Archibald Russell, Aircraft Engineer (1904-1995)
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in 1945 and closed in 2000, to be replaced by a new
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Bristol
Coordinates
51°28′09″N 2°34′57″W / 51.46916°N 2.58244°W / 51.46916; -2.58244
grammar
Co-educational
William Larkins Bernard
Old Fosterians
secondary school
Bristol
grammar school
comprehensive
Fairfield High School
William Larkins Bernard
£
Cary Grant
Sir Archibald Russell
supersonic airliner
Concorde
grammar school
listed Grade II
local education authority
comprehensive school
Redland
Category:People educated at Fairfield Grammar School
J. W. B. Barns
Sir Norman Frome
British India
Cary Grant
expelled

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