William Crane Comprehensive School

In its last year the school finished joint bottom of the GCSE league tables.

It consisted originally of four wings, north, south, east and west, each with its own entrance onto Minver Crescent.

The East and West were a single senior school connected by paths around the playing field.

The William Crane Comprehensive School which was opened in 1930 struggled to provide the required metrics and in 1999 finished joint bottom in the GCSE league tables, with only 4% of the 104 pupils being awarded with five GCSEs A-Cs.

[2] In 2012, according to research performed by the University of Nottingham only one in eight children in Bulwell, Aspley, Nottingham, Bilborough, Broxtowe Estate, Basford, Nottinghamshire and Bestwood went on to university, just 13% compared to a national average of 34%.