| Established | 1721 |
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| Closed | 2007 |
| Type | Foundation school |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headteacher | Mr Michael Griffiths |
| Founder | Thomas Deacon |
| Location | Queen's Gardens Peterborough Cambridgeshire PE1 2UW England |
| Local authority | Peterborough |
| DfE number | ???/5401 |
| DfE URN | 110901 |
| Students | 1059 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Fate | Closed and rebuilt in 2007 to become an academy |
Deacon's School was located in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough, England. In 2007, the school was demolished and replaced by the Thomas Deacon Academy.
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The school opened in 1721 as Mr. Deacon's Charity School in Cowgate. In his will, Thomas Deacon, a successful wool merchant, provided for the creation of a school for 20 poor boys. In the 1830s, Deacon's School merged with The Island School for Girls, which had been established by a Mrs Island in her will.[1]
New accommodation for the school was built on Queen's Gardens in Dogsthorpe, opened in 1960 as Deacon's Grammar School. It was a voluntary aided school with about 450 boys in the 1960s.
It became a voluntary controlled co-educational comprehensive school in 1976. It became a grant maintained school in the 1990s and applied to become a Technology College, becoming a specialist school in 1994. The building remained in Dogsthorpe for 47 years until the Academy was built on the same site.[2] Administration moved from Cambridgeshire to Peterborough in 1998.
The Deacon's School Trust, created by Thomas Deacon's will, partially funds the Academy[3] with Perkins Engines. The school merged with John Mansfield School on Western Avenue and the Hereward Community College[4] (a former secondary modern school on Reeves Way[5] in Eastfield) to form a £46m Academy. Plans were approved on 11 August 2004, and it was originally due to open in 2006 and cost £34m. Construction began in July 2005.