Mayfield School, Portsmouth

The school is located in the buildings of the former Portsmouth Northern Grammar School for Boys and Portsmouth Northern Grammar School for Girls, which were opened in 1932. (The boys school had begun as the Northern Secondary School in Kingston in 1921). After wartime evacuation, the two secondary schools were re-established in 1946 as a result of the 1944 Education Act. The boys' school housed approximately 550 boys in 1970 and was run by the City of Portsmouth Education Committee.

In 1975 the two schools were amalgamated with Brunel School (boys) and North End Modern Girls' School to form the largest comprehensive school in Portsmouth, with approximately 1800 pupils. The roll was later reduced by the setting up of Portsmouth's Sixth Form College with the school losing its sixth form.

In 1999, the school was failing academically and was placed in "special measures" after an Ofsted inspection said it was failing to provide an acceptable standard of education.[3] With new teachers the school has experienced a slight increase in academic achievement, with a 4% rise in GCSE achievement in 2004, compared with 2003.[3][4]

In 2005, 150 students of the school launched a protest against the deportation of a fellow student, Lorin Sulaiman, who had previously immigrated from Syria in 2003 after fearing for her safety.[5][6][7]

In September 2014 the school opened an infant and junior section of the school meaning that pupils can attend from the age of 4 to 16.

• 2003 Oh What a Lovely War
• 2004 A Midsummer Nights Dream
• 2005 Romeo and Juliet
• 2006 Oliver!
• 2007 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• 2008 The Boy Friend
• 2009 Sweet Charity
• 2010 Sweeney Todd
• 2011 Alice in Wonderland
• 2012 The Wizard of Oz
• 2013 Beauty and the Beast (Cancelled)
• 2014 (No school production)
• 2015 Into the Woods
• 2015 Grease
• 2016 Oliver!
• 2017 Little Shop Of Horrors
• 2018 Our House

• John Armitt CBE, Chief Executive from 1997-2001 of Costain Group, from 2001-2 of Railtrack, and from 2002-7 of Network Rail, and Chairman since 2007 of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Olympic Delivery Authority
• James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, the UK Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979, completed his secondary education at the former (now Mayfield) Northern Secondary School in 1926.
• Sir Barry Cunliffe CBE, archaeologist
• Sir Roger Fry (educationist) CBE. Founder King's Group 1981. Chairman (1996-2011) and President from 2011 Council of British International Schools.
• Mike Donkin, former BBC world affairs correspondent
• Dr. Chris Paige, formerly Adjunct Professor of chemistry at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is currently a professor at the University of Toronto.[9] -->
• Sir John Pestell, Chief Adjudicator on Immigration Appeals from 1970-87 at Heathrow Airport
• Maj-Gen Brian Pennicott CVO, Colonel Commandant from 1991-6 of the Royal Artillery