Stratton Upper School

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Stratton Upper School

Established	1950
Type	Academy
Headmaster	Mr Robert Watson
Location	Eagle Farm Road Biggleswade Bedfordshire SG18 8JB England Coordinates: 52°05′12″N 0°15′01″W / 52.08665°N 0.25015°W / 52.08665; -0.25015
DfE number	823/4005
DfE URN	137886 Tables
Ofsted	Reports Pre-academy reports
Students	1260
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	13–18
Website	stratton.beds.sch.uk

Stratton Upper School and Community College ^[1] is an upper school with academy status located in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, England. It is situated to the east of the town. The school has previously proven to be a relative success with Ofsted regarding the school as 'good with outstanding features'. However, following the school's move to Academy status the school was rated as 'needing improvement.'

Admissions

The school educates 13 - 16 year olds, mainly from the town of Biggleswade and some surrounding villages (including some from Cambridgeshire). In addition, the school offers further education for 16 - 18 year olds through its Sixth form department.

Stratton Upper School has been designated as a Training school. As a training school the school offers a postgraduate programme as well as a Graduate Teacher Programme, and an Access to Education Scheme. It also has a working farm.

History

The school was originally constructed during the late 1940s, in such a fashion that it could be used as a hospital in the event of another war. Opening in 1950 as '"Stratton Grammar Technical School," the facility became a comprehensive In 1976 and was subsequently the first school in the Biggleswade area to successfully apply for academy status in 2011. The school is now managed in conjunction with Gamlingay Village College by the Stratton Education Trust, and plans to extensively expand the site are expected to be put in place over the next few years.

In April 2013, a fire in the Humanities Department of the school caused an estimated £30,000 worth of damage and resulted in temporary closure.^[2]

Notable former pupils

Grammar school

Chris Roycroft-Davis, Sun journalist

Upper school

Gurpareet Bains, chef and food writer

References

↑ "Home". Stratton.beds.sch.uk. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
↑ "Fire causes £30,000 worth of damage at school". Biggleswade Today. Retrieved 26 April 2013.

External links

v t e Schools in Bedfordshire¹

Middle	Alban Ashton Beauchamp Etonbury Goldington Harrold Harrowden Newnham St Gregory's RC Westfield

Secondary	All Saints Academy Ashcroft High School Barnfield Sandy Academy Barnfield Skills Academy Barnfield South Academy Barnfield West Academy Bedford Academy Bedford Free School Biddenham Upper School Cardinal Newman High School Cedars Upper School Central Bedfordshire UTC Challney High School for Boys Challney High School for Girls Denbigh High School Harlington Upper School Hastingsbury Upper School Icknield High School Lealands High School Lea Manor High School Manshead Upper School Mark Rutherford School Putteridge High School Queensbury Academy Redborne Upper School St Thomas More RC School Samuel Whitbread Academy Sharnbrook Upper School Stratton Upper School Stopsley High School Vandyke Upper School Wootton Upper School

Special	The Chiltern School Grange Academy Ivel Valley School Oak Bank School Ridgeway School St John's School Weatherfield Academy Woodlands Secondary School

Independent	Bedford Girls' School Bedford Modern School Bedford Preparatory School Bedford School Pilgrims Pre-Preparatory School Polam School Rabia School Rushmoor School St Andrew's School

Sixth form & FE colleges	Barnfield College Bedford College Central Bedfordshire College Kimberley College Luton Sixth Form College Shuttleworth College Stella Mann College

Former	Bedford High School Dame Alice Harpur School Dunstable Grammar School John Howard Upper School

¹includes Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton local education authorities.

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