| Established | 1961 |
|---|---|
| Type | Foundation school |
| Headteacher | Mrs Marie Lister |
| Chair of the Governors | Paul Barratt |
| Specialisms | Arts Technology |
| Location | Burnham Road Epworth Lincolnshire DN9 1BY England |
| Local authority | North Lincolnshire |
| DfE URN | 118094 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | 931 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Publication | Newsletter |
| Trust | South Axholme School Trust |
| Website | SACS |
South Axholme School is a comprehensive school in Epworth in North Lincolnshire, England. Its name comes from the Isle of Axholme.
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It is situated on the A161. Epworth, and the school, have a Doncaster and South Yorkshire address, but the school is in North Lincolnshire LEA. Epworth Leisure Centre[1] is next door.
Its sister school, North Axholme School, is in Crowle at the other end of the A161 and junction 2 of the M180. Only three secondary schools in (the east of) North Lincolnshire have sixth forms, and two of those are in Brigg. Everyone else, within distance of Scunthorpe, after 16 attends the John Leggott College (some distance from Epworth). An education including South Axholme and John Leggott is more than satisfactory.
Down the road along the A161 in Gainsborough (West Lindsey), grammar school education is also available, which slightly alters the intake of pupils. South Axholme will attract pupils not wanting to be educated in Scunthorpe.[2]
Epworth has significant cultural signifance in the Methodist movement.
It was built in 1961 by Lindsey County Council. It became part of Humberside Education Committee in 1974, then North Lincolnshire in 1996.
It was called Epworth Comprehensive School, then South Axholme Comprehensive School.
It became South Axholme Community School – an Arts Technology College in 2000 under headteacher Malcolm Toms, and was a community school. As part of the arts technology status, pupils were taught how to be proficient in Macromedia Flash, and the school also entered national film-making competitions.
On 1 September 2010, it became a foundation school, also known as a trust school. Many foundation schools (the remnants of grant-maintained schools) belong to a trust, as defined by the School Standards and Framework Act 1998. It is similar to a voluntary aided school. The South Axholme School Trust is operated by:
As befits many high-performing schools, it has a wide range of extra-curricular activities such as a school orchestra.
The school has thriving sports teams.The school is continuously producing talents in all different sports and is pushing the sporting curriculum.
The school gets good results at GCSE, considering many other comprehensive schools in North Lincolnshire do not. As a result it attracts pupils from some distance outside its catchment area, including Doncaster borough where comprehensive schools have had severe discipline problems. South Axholme is a model of how comprehensive schools can work successfully. However few other secondary schools in North Lincolnshire are quite so fortunate.
In 2010 it received the second best GCSE results in North Lincolnshire, after the Vale of Ancholme School in Brigg.