The Petersfield School

The Petersfield School is located in Petersfield, Hampshire, in southern England. The school opened on 20 June 1958 and remains the only state-funded secondary school in Petersfield. It received Arts College status in September 2004, and became an academy in July 2011. The current head teacher is Mr Mark Marande, with the previous being Mr Nigel Poole.HistoryThe school first opened on 20 June 1958 with an original enrolment of 400 pupils. This has since increased to an enrolment of 1200 pupils in 2010. It received Arts College status in September 2004 with the opening of a new studio called The Studio @ TPS.The school was inspected by Ofsted in September 2002, and has been inspected three more times since then. In 2002 Ofsted praised the school's results in General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) qualifications, which were above the national average, as well as the school's development plan to improve. Concerns were however raised about the gap in performance between boy and girl students in GCSEs, inconsistency in dealing with "the unsatisfactory behaviour of a small but influential minority of pupils", and the school timetabling system which resulted in many pupils having more than one teacher per subject. In March 2007 the school was re-inspected with Ofsted rating the school's overall effectiveness as grade 3 ("satisfactory"). The relationship between pupils and teachers was described as "outstanding" and it was stated that the school had "good capacity to improve further". Criticism was given about the lack of "progress" from pupils in Years Ten and Eleven. In June 2010 The Petersfield School was assessed as grade 1 ("outstanding"). Ofsted concluded that the school had improved significantly due to the introduction of a "departmental review system", including "pupil panels". The School was most recently inspected in the 2014 - 2015 school year and was assessed as "good".

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