Burnt Mill School is situated on First Avenue in the south-west Essex

Essex

Essex is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England, and one of the home counties. It is located to the northeast of Greater London. It borders with Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent to the South and London to the south west...

 town of Harlow

Harlow

Harlow is a new town and local government district in Essex, England. It is located in the west of the county and on the border with Hertfordshire, on the Stort Valley, The town is near the M11 motorway and forms part of the London commuter belt.The district has a current population of 78,889...

. Burnt Mill School is built near the site of a mill that had burnt down, hence the name of the school and the surrounding area. In the coming academic year (Sept 2011- July 2012), Burnt Mill School will be holding celebrations year-round to celebrate 50 years since opening. (1962-2012). Plans are yet to be confirmed.

Admissions

Located near Harlow town park, Burnt Mill School is an 11-16 mixed comprehensive school of around 1200 students. It is a community school and has specialist

Specialist school

The specialist schools programme was a UK government initiative which encouraged secondary schools in England to specialise in certain areas of the curriculum to boost achievement. The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust was responsible for the delivery of the programme...

 status in the Performing Arts

Arts College

Arts Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, the performing, visual and/or media arts...

 (since 2003). At Burnt Mill, there are five houses that are named after famous and significant people, Cockcroft, Eliot, Hunt

John Hunt, Baron Hunt

Brigadier Henry Cecil John Hunt, Baron Hunt KG, PC, CBE, DSO, was a British army officer who is best known as the leader of the successful 1953 British Expedition to Mount Everest.-Early life and career:...

, Moore

Henry Moore

Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art....

 & Sheppard

David Sheppard

David Stuart Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Liverpool was the high-profile Bishop of Liverpool in the Church of England who played cricket for Sussex and England in his youth...

; there used to be a sixth house called Cheshire

Leonard Cheshire

Group Captain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire, Baron Cheshire, VC, OM, DSO and Two Bars, DFC was a highly decorated British RAF pilot during the Second World War....

, there are talks of Cheshire House making a comeback in the not so distant future. Burnt Mill School's Students are affectionately known as 'Burnt Millers'.
Burnt Mill academically remains one of two comprehensive institutes in the United Kingdom with outstanding pass rates on the GCSE results each year increasing.

Academic performance

Burnt Mill School remains one of the top community institutions in the country. Burnt Mill School is the best academically in Harlow

Harlow

Harlow is a new town and local government district in Essex, England. It is located in the west of the county and on the border with Hertfordshire, on the Stort Valley, The town is near the M11 motorway and forms part of the London commuter belt.The district has a current population of 78,889...

, and is in the top 25 percent of secondary schools nationally, with its most recent pass rate (August 2011) being 96% A*-C grades, this is also the best pass rate Burnt Mill School has ever achieved. An improvement on last year's result by 16%.

Alumni

• Liam Byrne
  Liam Byrne
  Liam Dominic Byrne is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill since 2004, and was the Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2009 to 2010 before being appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on 20 January 2011.-Early...
  
  
• DJ Nihal
  DJ Nihal
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• Bill Rammell
  Bill Rammell
  William Ernest Rammell is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Harlow from 1997 to 2010, and has served as the Minister of State for the Armed Forces at the Ministry of Defence...
  
  
• John Mann (comedian)
  John Mann (comedian)
  John Mann is a British comedian, writer and columnist who lives in Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire. He attended Burnt Mill School in Harlow.-Early career:Mann started performing at the Square in Harlow where he was a sound engineer...
  
  
• Michael Arthur
• Glenn Hoddle
  Glenn Hoddle
  Glenn Hoddle is an English former footballer and manager who played as an attacking midfielder for Tottenham Hotspur, AS Monaco, Chelsea and Swindon Town and at international level for England....
  
  
• Richard Keogh
  Richard Keogh
  Richard John Keogh is an footballer defender who plays for Football League Championship side Coventry City.-Bristol City:...
  
  
• Jaime Winstone
• Graham Cole
• Professor Gary Green