At 2:30 p.m. on Friday, 20th September, 1957, Churchill Secondary Modern School was officially opened by the Rt. Hon. J. Chuter Ede, C.H., D.L., M.P., President of the County Councils Association. We still have the programme from that event in our archive, which you can view below:
The first Headmaster, Mr R. J. Dennis, recorded the occasion in the School Log Book:
At that time, Churchill County Secondary School had 402 students on roll, distributed as follows:
- V – 24
- IVa – 28
- Upper IVb – 25
- Lower IVb – 24
- Lower Remove – 14
- IIIa – 30
- Upper IIIb – 26
- Lower IIIb – 19
- IIa – 35
- Upper IIb – 32
- Lower IIb – 26
- Lower Remove – 20
- I S – 30
- I L – 32
- I K – 37
The school has gone through many changes since then, firstly becoming a comprehensive in 1969. It then became Churchill Community School in 1996, before becoming a foundation school in 2007 (when it became known as Churchill Community Foundation School and Sixth Form Centre). Finally, on 1st August 2011, the school became Churchill Academy & Sixth Form.
The original school logo, as awarded to the school’s first Head Boy in 1957.
As of September 2017, 1,481 students attend Churchill Academy & Sixth Form: 733 boys, 748 girls, 264 sixth formers and 1,217 in the main school. Even as we work towards the decommissioning and eventual demolition of the original 1957 building, the school which was opened sixty years ago in Churchill is going strong.
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