Brentwood County High School - 01277 227156

Brentwood County High School is an over-subscribed state-funded academy (formerly a grammar school) located in the affluent suburb of Brentwood, Essex which specialises in the teaching of Science, Mathematics and Computing. The school receives support from, and is a member of the Brentwood Community Learning Trust and educates around 1400 students from North East London and South West Essex.The SchoolThe school is on a single site consisting of grammar school buildings originally built in 1927. After the school's conversion from a girls' grammar school in 1978 a linking extension was added where science, art and design and technology are taught. Soon afterwards, a drama hall, sports hall, gymnasium, fitness suite and more classrooms were added where physical education and humanities are taught. A separate building was added where Mathematics is taught, there are also two drama studios where some drama lessons take place. The newest addition to the school is the library and two new classrooms which were added in 2009.The school has a reasonably sized field where Rugby and other outdoor sports are taught and played competitively either through inter-school competitions or as part of a County sports league. The school also has an indoor swimming pool where swimming lessons and the annual swimming gala take place.HistoryIn 1913, a private school for girls which originally opened in 1876, was taken over by Essex County Council opening with only fifty four students as a girls' grammar school.In 1927, the school moved from Queen's Road, Brentwood to its current site at Seven Arches Road Brentwood. Extensions were added by 1937 to provide accommodation for 450 girls. During the grammar school era of the 1960s and early 1970s, it was the female counterpart of Brentwood School, which was a boys' direct grant grammar school at that time.

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