Wilsthorpe Community School is a secondary comprehensive school, in Long Eaton, Derbyshire. It opened in 1954 as the Wilsthorpe Secondary Modern School. Neighbouring the school was the Parklands County Secondary Modern School, which became an infants school. During the Eighties it was known as Wilsthorpe Community School and still retains the 'community school' status. The school gained Business and Enterprise status in 2005. It is currently piloting an Enterprise Award scheme in partnership with the local council, Erewash Borough Council. The secondary school shares its site with Parklands Infants School and Harrington Junior School, allowing children to stay on the same site from their first year of school all the way to the Sixth Form of approximately 140 student. Also on the same site are Brackenfield Special School and English Martyrs RC Junior School. Wilsthorpe, along with a number of 'primary partners', is involved in an Independent State School Partnership with nearby Trent College. 'ISSP' is a government-funded initiative. Wilsthorpe was the first school in the UK to offer facilities for a community policeman on site in 2003.