Joyce Frankland Academy

Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport
Official logo, reads "Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport"
Address
Map
Bury Water Lane

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CB11 3TR

Coordinates51°59′26″N 0°12′50″E / 51.990558°N 0.213817°E / 51.990558; 0.213817
Information
Former nameNewport Free Grammar School
TypeAcademy
Established1588; 436 years ago (1588)
FounderJoyce Frankland
Department for Education URN138734 Tables
OfstedReports
HeadteacherDuncan Roberts
GenderCoeducational
Age11 to 18
Enrolment987
Houses  Thompson   Caius
  Saxie   Banstead
  Morden   Trappes
Former pupilsOld Newportonians
Websitewww.jfan.org.uk

Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport, formerly Newport Free Grammar School, is a school in Newport, Essex, England. It was founded in 1588.[1] The school is a mixed secondary school with a sixth form. It previously existed in different forms including a boarding school and a grammar school. The headteacher is Duncan Roberts and the vice headteacher is Ian Stoneham. As of 2012, there were 987 students, including 160 in the sixth form.[2]

It takes its current name (since 2012) after Dame Joyce Frankland (1531-1588), the only daughter of goldsmith Robert Trappes, who founded it as the "free Grammer Schole of Newport". Dame Frankland also made a number of educational bequests in her will to colleges at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

  1. ^ "Tradition to Technology". Newport Free Grammar School. Archived from the original on 9 October 2006. Retrieved 11 January 2007.
  2. ^ "Ofsted Report 2012". 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October 2006. Retrieved 27 December 2012.