Gosport - Education

Education

Gosport has 10 each of infants and junior schools, 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools, a college and a sixth form college. The secondary schools include:

  • Bay House School which is a former grammar school, located near the coast, in Stanley Park. Bay House School also includes a sixth-form. Currently there are 2100 pupils and 370 sixth-form students enrolled (correct as of September 2008). It was within the top 200 state schools in the country, as judged by The Times..
  • Bridgemary School, located in Bridgemary. It used to be a failing school but in recent years the introduction of new teaching techniques have turned the school's fortunes around. Bridgemary is also the only school in the UK to have adopted a "vertical learning" curriculum, where children are put in classes based on ability, not age. Bridgemary will also be starting a 24/7 timetable and a virtual learning window in the near future.
  • Brune Park Community College is also situated in Gosport. It is a specialist performing arts college and has a state of the art dance studio (opened on 20 January 2006), drama studios as well as a gym and a swimming pool (the roof of which has recently been renovated). Recently "footlights" cafĂ© was opened in place of the old drama hall. The Brune Park "Youthy" is also very successful.
  • There has been a thriving Home Education group in the area for over twenty years, with support from Education Otherwise.

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