Brookfield Community School

What Brookfield Community School does

Brookfield Community School is a state-funded, mixed comprehensive secondary school for pupils aged 11-16, located in Southampton and maintained by Hampshire County Council. The institution delivers the standard UK national curriculum with GCSE preparation, a PSHE program incorporating relationships and sex education resources, structured careers guidance, and dedicated SEND support provision. Its stated ethos centers on "Aspire, Act, Achieve," supported by the Brookfield Stars recognition program that reinforces student values and achievement.

The school's operational platform is built on a stack of integrated digital tools: SharePoint-based portals for staff and student resources, EduLink for parent communication and information management, Microsoft 365 for productivity, Scopay for payment processing, and School Cloud for parents' evening scheduling. The institution also extends its offering beyond the standard academic calendar through a Summer School transition program for incoming Year 7 pupils, and operates structured teacher-training pathways including Initial Teacher Training (ITT), Early Career Teacher (ECT) support, and National Professional Qualification (NPQ) leadership development routes. Safeguarding partnerships with CEOP and Internet Matters underpin its online safety curriculum.

The business model is non-commercial: the school is funded primarily through Hampshire County Council's per-pupil allocations and SEND top-up grants, with supplementary income from catering, lettings, and minor parental contributions processed via Scopay. As a state-maintained institution, it serves a defined catchment area and does not operate in a competitive market for fee-paying students. The staff base of 101-250 employees places it in the mid-size band for UK secondary schools, and its over-subscribed status indicates demand-side strength within its catchment.

Name

Brookfield Community School

Legal name

Brookfield Community School

Website

https://www.brookfield.hants.sch.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Brookfield Community School is an over-subscribed 11-16 mixed comprehensive committed to excellence and to helping every child succeed.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Secondary Education

NAICS

Elementary and Secondary Schools (6111), Elementary and Secondary Schools (61111), Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Student Support & Related Services (Counseling, SEL, Health, Safety) (EDAJAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

After-School Academic Support Programs (Centers & Clubs) (EDAJALAM), Student Mentoring & Peer Support Programs (EDAJALAL)

Keywords

• Secondary education
• GCSE preparation
• PSHE curriculum
• Student wellbeing services
• Teacher training

Headquarters

HQ city

Southampton

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Core offering

Brookfield Community School delivers state-funded secondary education to students aged 11-16 across Years 7-11, including core and option subjects, GCSE preparation, PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) curriculum, careers guidance, and extracurricular enrichment. The school supplements classroom learning with pastoral support (House system, SEND provision, ELSA), wellbeing services, a recognition programme (Brookfield Stars), and a Year 6-to-7 Summer School transition programme. Operational services include facility hire, a performing arts box office, and digital portals (EduLink, SharePoint-based Parent/Student/Staff/Governor portals, School Cloud, Scopay) supporting parent engagement, payments, and home learning.

Product overview

Brookfield Community School operates a digital ecosystem consisting of a central website and multiple integrated platforms serving students, parents, staff, and governors. The school uses EduLink as its primary student and parent communication portal for home learning and attendance, complemented by SharePoint-based portals (Parent, Student, Staff, and Governor) for secure information access. Additional services include School Cloud for parents' evening scheduling, Scopay for payments, and Microsoft 365 tools (Teams, Outlook, OneDrive) for collaboration. The school also provides a comprehensive curriculum and PSHE program spanning Years 7-11, teacher training pathways through its ITT and CPD programs, and transition programs including Summer School for incoming students.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Secondary Education Programme (Years 7-11)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Bohunt School: An over-subscribed 11-18 mixed comprehensive in Liphook, Hampshire — directly comparable to Brookfield as a similarly-sized, high-performing state secondary in the same Hampshire county footprint.
• The Westgate School: A Hampshire state secondary school serving a comparable age range with a similar community-school ethos and curriculum structure, making it a directly comparable peer in the same county.
• Swanmore College: A Hampshire state secondary school of comparable size and intake type, sharing catchment-driven admissions and a similar pastoral/House system approach.
• Horndean Technology College: A Hampshire-based secondary school with a similar intake and curriculum model, providing a useful like-for-like benchmark for outcomes and operations.
• Cams Hill School: A co-educational secondary school in Fareham, Hampshire, comparable to Brookfield in size, status, and the secondary comprehensive experience it offers.
• Park Community School: A state secondary school in Havant, Hampshire, sharing Brookfield's community-school operating model and broadly comparable student demographic.

Broad incumbents

• Oasis Community Learning: One of the UK's largest multi-academy trusts operating numerous secondary schools; comparable to Brookfield as an organisation delivering state-funded secondary education, but at much greater scale and across multiple sites.
• United Learning: A large group of state and independent schools including many UK secondary comprehensives; comparable as a wide-portfolio provider of secondary education, but with a much broader national footprint.
• Ormiston Academies Trust: A national MAT operating a large portfolio of secondary academies; comparable to Brookfield in delivering English state secondary education, but with multi-site scale and centralised governance.
• Harris Federation: A large not-for-profit MAT running many secondary schools across London and southern England; a broad incumbent in the same state-secondary space as Brookfield, with significantly greater scale and reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/BrookfieldSch

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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