Homewood School

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Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre is a comprehensive school in Tenterden, Kent, England. It has 2300 students and 180 staff. Homewood is a comprehensive school but is situated within the Kent selective system so it has a student profile that is half way between comprehensive and secondary modern. It has been awarded specialist Arts College status.

It provides education for students from the town itself, surrounding villages and also from Ashford. It is a popular school and is oversubscribed each year at admissions time. Results have improved over the last ten years after the school was given significant government money to build new buildings as part of an expansion of the school to accommodate growth in the urban area of South Ashford.

[edit] Organisation

The school is split into five mini-schools named after the Cinque Ports that operate as welfare houses. It is innovative in its approach to organisation: it follows a five term year, having mixed age form groups, enters students for GCSE a year earlier than the national norm and starts the sixth form early.

Homewood is classified as a "leading school" in ICT. It has online facilities that allow students, parents and teachers to access school work externally.

[edit] External links

• [1]School website