The Forest School is a comprehensive secondary school in Horsham, West Sussex, England. It educates students between the ages of 11 and 16 and is a specialist Engineering and Business and Enterprise College. The school liaises closely with Millais School, the girls' school in the town. It was formerly an 1118 secondary modern school, becoming an 1116 comprehensive in 1976. From September 2021, the school is co-educational. History The school's history can be traced back to 1928, when the Oxford Road Senior School opened. This was a co-educational school that in 1932 had an average attendance of 208: 116 boys and 92 girls; by 1938, this number had risen to 294: 153 boys and 141 girls. After 1944, the school split into Horsham secondary boys' and girls' schools.. The boys' school—then named Horsham Secondary Modern School for Boys—moved to its current campus in Comptons Lane in 1954. In 1958, the girls' school was relocated to a nearby site, and both schools were renamed under the Forest name, leading to the opening of the Forest secondary boys school. In 1976, education in the town was reorganized to form three comprehensive schools and a separate sixth form college in place of the existing grammar and secondary modern structure. The Forest school was reconstituted as an 1116 boys comprehensive, with sixth form provision moving to The College of Richard Collyer. For a period of time which included 19791985, the school was divided into departments or "Houses", each its own colour. Brunel – Art/Design/Metalwork/Woodwork (Pink), Faraday – Sciences (Yellow), Mansion – Languages (Light Blue), Newton – Mathematics (Red), Shelley – English language/Literature (Dark Blue), Tyler – Humanities (Green) In the late '70's and early '80's, the first computers arrived and these were Commodore Pets (2 with 1Kb memory and 1 with 32Kb memory). These were under the care of the Mathematics department and were later joined by a batch of 16Kb "Pets" and a BBC Micro. The Science Department procured a Sinclair ZX80, then a ZX81 as their first computers. In 2008, the past Houses (Tudor, Stuart, Lancaster, and York) were disbanded, and new "communities" were formed (Dyson, Hawking, Branson and Marconi respectively). The school introduced a 'Vertical Tutor Group' system in 2009, but ceased this in 2020. In April 2010 the redesigned school website was launched complete with virtual learning facilities, which are now used mostly for homework and revision material. This website