page_title: The Long Eaton School
section_title: New site
hierarchical_section_title: The Long Eaton School / History / New site
caption_attribution_description: Foot bridge over Erewash canal
context_page_description: The Long Eaton School is a secondary Academy on Thoresby Road in Long Eaton located between Nottingham and Derby.
context_section_description: On 14 February 2006, the former building which had been the grammar school on Tamworth Road (B6540), close to Long Eaton's centre, was closed. Part of the old buildings were demolished for housing. That part was previously used for years 10–11(ages 15–16) and also the Sixth Form. A brand new £15m school was built, under PFI funding by Babcock & Brown, adjacent to the former Roper School site, on the other side of the Erewash Canal. The new school is accessible via a footbridge over the canal. The former buildings of the Roper School were demolished. The new school is surrounded by a large security fence. It was built under the same PFI contract as Newbold Community School in Chesterfield.
  It is a specialist science college, with an Eco status. The school recently had a new building built in 2005 and was visited by Gordon Brown on 10 November 2006 for the official opening. In September 2007, the school had to close for two days due to a water contamination of Legionnaire's disease.
  Like many schools in the United Kingdom, in 2020, due to COVID-19 the school closed it's doors in March 2020 to everyone except those with parents as key workers.
caption: The footbridge over the canal built for the school.
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