Facilities

The school is a Community School, which means that it is maintained by Shropshire County Council. In January 2005 there were 1048 students on roll, including 140 at Grove College, with nearly 80 teaching staff and a wide range of support staff.

The Grove has excellent facilities. There is a carefully managed programme of buildings maintenance and improvement and all areas are decorated on a regular basis.

 

All subjects have a suite of rooms. In addition there is a hall with stage, gymnasium, sports hall and drama studio. Particular facilities include ten science laboratories, most of which have recently been refurbished with state-of-the-art teaching resources including interactive whiteboards and computers, five technology workshops/design bases, also refurbished to a high standard, a home economics suite with four rooms and a computer suite shared with design technology, an open plan art and pottery area, a music suite with teaching, instrumental tuition and practice rooms, five information technology rooms and an excellent library and resource centre. ICT access for students is very good, with over 250 networked computers available throughout the school and college.

The Language College building has nine teaching rooms with interactive whiteboards, a video conferencing facility and an ICT suite with specialist software dedicated to language teaching.

For sports, there is a good range of sports pitches and hard courts. The school has its own field centre in the Lake District (The Birks) purchased by the P.T.A., at a cost of £40,000, in 1985.