Brookfield Community School

• Name — Brookfield Community School • Established — 1990 • Type — Academy • Head Label — Headteacher • Head — K. Hirst • Chair Label — Chair of Governors • Chair — Professor Tom Denton • Address — Chatsworth Road • City — Chesterfield • County — Derbyshire • Country — England • Postal Code — S40 3NS • Local Authority — Derbyshire • Ofsted — yes • Urn — 136548 • Staff — 7 senior leadership, 77 teaching, 74 support • Enrolment — 1084 • Gender — Coeducational • Lower Age — 11 • Upper Age — 18 • Website — brookfield.derbyshire.sch.uk Brookfield Community School is an academy school located on Chatsworth Road (A619) in the west of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. It is a comprehensive secondary school which has around 1300 students between the ages 11–18 (Years 7–13), including approximately 300 sixth formers.

In the data for the year 2024/2025, the school had a Progress 8 score of 0.5, indicating that pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 had made more progress, on average, than pupils across England who got similar results at the end of Key Stage 2. The same data shows 66.2% of pupils achieving a GCSE grade 5 or above in English & Maths.

Brookfield Community School's history stretches back to the founding of the Chesterfield Grammar School in 1598. This school taught boys throughout the 17th and 18th century, until its closure in 1832. In 1845, the school was restarted in a new building (which remains on Sheffield Road today, and is now part of Chesterfield College), expanding to a size of around 500 in 1928. Additional land on Storrs Road (on the west side of the town) was acquired in the 1930s, but minimally used due to lack of funds and the Second World War. In 1949, work began on the levelling of playing fields on the site, which was opened in 1953. The present site of Brookfield (on Chatsworth Road/Brookside, adjacent to the Storrs Road playing fields) was opened for Chesterfield School in 1967. Following the Education Act 1944, the school became a state-sponsored grammar school. Brookfield Community School was formed in 1991 in a re-organisation of schools in Chesterfield, On 1 April 2011, Brookfield Community School officially gained academy status. In 2018, following an Inadequate OFSTED inspection, the school was encouraged to join a MAT (Multi Academy Trust). Shortly afterwards they announced they were joining Redhill Academy Trust. The school's most recent Ofsted inspection judged it to be 'Good'.

In April 2018, a TRA disciplinary panel found that Mark Rodda had engaged in unacceptable conduct while working as a science teacher at the school between January and May 2017. His behaviour included inappropriate physical contact, such as massaging pupils' shoulders and placing his arm around them. He also made explicit sexual remarks to students. Rodda was indefinitely banned from teaching in any school or sixth form college in England.

• Cyril Bibby, biologist; taught biology (1938–40) • Paul Holmes, History master (1979–83), Liberal Democrat MP for Chesterfield (2001–10) • Cec Thompson, former professional rugby league footballer; Head of Economics and Rugby Master (at the school for 17 years, retired 1991)