Beaconsfield School

The Beaconsfield School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form with academy status, located in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. The school has approximately 870 pupils.In 2006 the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) awarded the school specialist school status as an Arts College specialising in both the performing arts and the visual arts.Academy statusThe school began its academy consultation on December 12, 2011. It sent letters to parents on that date, detailing plans of discussion about converting to an academy. It held a presentation in the main hall on January 25, 2012 for parents and wider community stakeholders.The school formally converted to academy status on 1 March 2013.SiteThe school consists of one main block, a sports hall and various buildings that lead off the main building. The site also has a recently built terrapin which houses a local nursery.The main building is three stories high, the second floor (A floor) has three freshly renovated Science labs, two dedicated Science room, one History classroom and two Modern Foreign Languages classrooms. It also has access to the Drama studio's balcony. The first floor (B floor) has one ICT suite, one focus area, one Geography classroom, five Maths classrooms, one Media suite fitted with 15+ brand new Mac computers, one Music suite also fitted with 15+ Mac computers, one Religious Studies classroom, one Media/English classroom and a large Drama studio fitted with electric lighting, a switchboard and a large music system. The ground floor (C floor) holds the reception, headteachers office, Lemonwedge (the Arts Learning Centre), four English classrooms, one ICT suite, one Music classroom, the specialist SEN focus area and a large locker room. On the far left staircase there are seven mezzanine classrooms and offices. This includes a History/Psychology classroom, a Psychology observation room, an ICT suite, a Business Studies classroom with 15+ computer workstations and an isolation room.