Editing Belper (section)

===Secondary schools===
[[Belper School]] and Sixth Form Centre<ref name="belperschool">{{cite web | url=http://www.belperschool.co.uk/ |title=Belper School and Sixth Form Centre | access-date=10 September 2012}}</ref> has approximately 1,400 pupils aged 11–18. It was originally named "Belper High School" when it was built in 1973, and is adjacent to Belper Leisure Centre. Famous people to have attended the school include [[Ross Davenport]] – winner of two swimming gold medals at the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]] – and [[Alison Hargreaves]], holder of a number of mountaineering records.

[[File:Belper - Herbert Strutt School - Front.jpg|thumb|Herbert Strutt Grammar School buildings in November 2008]] 
Herbert Strutt Grammar School was among the Strutt family's bequests to the town. It became a middle school in 1973, with the opening of the new Belper High School, and latterly a primary school, in use as such until spring 2008 when it was replaced by a new building on a different site. Notable among its pupils were the actors [[Alan Bates]] and [[Timothy Dalton]].

For a number of years from 1979, the innovative [[Rowen House School]] provided education on [[Democratic education|democratic principles]]. Also, during the 1970s and 1980s, Belper was the site of an experimental three-tier education system, comprising a number of primary schools (age 5–9 years, referred to as "first" schools), feeding into two main secondary schools (age 9–13 years, referred to as "middle schools"), pupils from both then usually attended a single American-style high school (age 13–18 years). In the mid-1980s, this scheme was abandoned, and the current two-tier system adopted. At the same time, one of the two secondary schools, Parks Secondary School, was closed down and the buildings, which were in a poor state of repair, demolished. In recent years, the site of the former Parks Secondary School has been used for a new school.