Many estates such as Manorfields, Meadowfields and Ashdene were built at this time, demanding even more schools.

[1] In August 2011 the school became an academy with specialist status in Mathematics and Computing.

[5] In 2012, Crofton, together with Wakefield College, proposed the building of a sixth form centre.

Instead, it was used by the Secondary School entirely, as a block for foreign languages classrooms.

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