De Aston School

De Aston School
Established 1863
Type Academy
Religion Christian
Headteacher Ellenor Beighton
Location Willingham Road
Market Rasen
Lincolnshire
LN8 3RF
England
Coordinates: 53°23′01″N 0°19′32″W / 53.3836°N 0.3255°W / 53.3836; -0.3255
DfE number 925/4514
DfE URN 136491 Tables
Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports
Students 1,067 pupils
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–18
Publication De Aston Voice
Website De Aston

De Aston School is a mixed secondary school with academy status in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England. It also has a sixth form and boarding house. The school has a broad Christian ethos but accommodates those of other faiths or no faith.

Admissions

It has approximately 1,050 pupils.[1] The school provides boarding accommodation for around 80 pupils, many of whom come from abroad. De Aston is a specialist school in mathematics and computing. The De Aston Sports Centre is shared with the school.[2]

The school magazine is called the De Aston Voice. It is situated in the east of the town on Willingham Road (A631).

History

Grammar school

De Aston School pre 1915

De Aston School was founded in 1863 as a small grammar school, as part of a legal settlement following a court case involving funds from the medieval charity of Thomas De Aston, a 13th-century monk. Until recently, the school's Foundation Governors also owned the chapel at the site of the charity's Almshouses at Spital on the Street, a few miles away to the west.

The school's headmaster originally had his own house on the school site. The Victorian Gothic red brick house was built in 1863 and was designated as a Grade II listed building by English Heritage in 1984.[3] As a grammar school it was administered by the Lindsey Education Committee, based in Lincoln, and became co-educational in 1971.

Comprehensive

It became a comprehensive in 1974 (when Lincoln became comprehensive), amalgamating with Market Rasen Secondary Modern School on Kilnwell Road. At the same time, new buildings were opened.

Academy

The school converted to academy status in March 2011.

Headmasters

Media

In March 2001, at the Secondary Heads Association's conference in Newport, Ellenor Beighton, head teacher, spoke out against the current funding system for schools.[4] Then in July 2001 Former Headmaster Anthony Neal disagreed with School Standards Minister Stephen Timms over the benefits of specialist schools saying that they create a two-tier system.[5] Homework was being publicly discussed in December 2001 in the wake of Cherie Blair's request to the Ministry of Defence for information to help with her son's homework. Neal commented that homework was essential and central to the fact that standards were rising.[6]

Police apologised to the school, in November 2006, after a computer error wrongly put it at the top of a national table for the number of police call-outs.[7]

Academic standards

The November 2009 inspection Ofsted rated the school Grade 2 (Good), on a four-point scale.[1] In 2009 88% of students achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE. The school was placed in the top 200 most improved schools nationally.

Awards

Notable former pupils

Market Rasen Secondary Modern School

References

  1. 1 2 Inspection Report November 2009, Ofsted, published 15 January 2010
  2. ↑ "Wolds Leisure - De Aston Sports Centre", West Lindsey District Council
  3. ↑ Images of England website, reference no 196480
  4. ↑ "Heads attack funding 'cut'", BBC News, 25 March 2001
  5. ↑ "Specialist schools 'boost confidence'", BBC News, 17 July 2001
  6. ↑ "Are parents trying too hard?", The Daily Telegraph, December 2001
  7. ↑ "Police mistake brands school pupils violent", Lincolnshire Echo , 9 November 2006
  8. ↑ "Philippa’s direction to television success". Market Rasen Mail. 20 April 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2014.

Further reading

External links

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