Fullbrook was first established on its present site in 1954, when West Byfleet County Secondary School was divided into two as numbers at that school, due to post-war expansion, reached 747 in September 1953. Pupils living to the north of the line from Sheerwater Road, the Basingstoke Canal and then along the railway to West Weybridge transferred to Fullbrook County Secondary School. Above the main entrance is a stone plaque that was loaned to the school from the London County Council during the building programme in the early 1950s. The Sheerwater Estate was being built to provide over spill housing for Londoners. The school there, now Bishop David Brown, had not yet been built and so the plaque came to the just completed Fullbrook School. The Headteacher and Governors used it to inspire the school badge. The plaque features an eagle and a squirrel. It was decided that as an eagle was often used on badges, to use choose the squirrel as it was different. The Festival of Britain was held at that time and celebrated contemporary design. The original Fullbrook building is in a typical 1950s style and perhaps the plaque was placed over the main entrance to decorate an otherwise plain architectural design. The plaque design is very much in the Art Deco style and it is possible that it came from a London building destroyed during The Blitz. The initial cohort of teaching staff also came from West Byfleet. These included Mr. Wilfred H. Bean, B.Sc., the headmaster, Mrs. M. McGrath, Miss O. Edwards, Miss Mullin, Miss Taylor, Mrs. Jean Elvidge and Messrs. Blanchard, Davis, P. Drawneek, Russell T. Elvidge, W. Evans, S. Payne, Wheeler. Mr. W. H. Bean, the school's first headmaster retired in 1968. In 1976 West Byfleet County Secondary School closed and its pupils and teachers joined Fullbrook, merged to create the mixed school we are familiar with today.
Houses
The houses of the school were originally named after British Royal Houses - Tudor, Stuart, Hanover and Windsor and then later famous battles - Alamein, Blenheim, Agincourt, Hastings, Trafalgar and Waterloo and were formed from an entire school vote on a list of 50 house name ideas which were themed around the idea of Maths and Computing. The six that won were Newton, Cyber, Enigma, Fibonacci, Galileo and Matrix. In 2017, another vote was held, updating the house names with a new tutor system. After the vote, the new four house names were Phoenix, Pegasus, Griffin, Dragon.
