Hazelwick School

Hazelwick School is a co-educational comprehensive school with academy status for pupils aged 11 to 18, located in Crawley, West Sussex, England. Many famous people have graced the Hazelwick School ground such as Gareth Southgate, Romesh Ranganathan and Darren O'Neill from the band The Glass Room. History Hazelwick School was built in 1953 as part of developing Crawley as a new town and was opened as Hazelwick county secondary modern school in 1953. A further building was added in 1959, and in 1960 became a bilateral modern and grammar school, becoming a comprehensive school in 1964. In 1971, the school reduced its age range to 12-18, as the area became a three-tier area, with provision for children in middle schools up until the age of twelve, and in 1984 the number of students attending was 1,675. In 2004, with the school once again took pupils aged eleven, at the beginning of year 7. In preparation for this latter change, the school had considerable work done to buildings. It had been thought that the school would form part of the local private finance initiative which re-built other local schools, but this was not to be the case. A full-sized, floodlit, astroturf pitch was added in 2006. A new Learning Resource Centre, library, and specialist IT educational facility were added in 2007.