Newent Community School And Sixth Form Centre

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.