Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport | |
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Address | |
Bury Water Lane , , CB11 3TR | |
Coordinates | 51°59′26″N 0°12′50″E / 51.990558°N 0.213817°E |
Information | |
Former name | Newport Free Grammar School |
Type | Academy |
Established | 1588 |
Founder | Joyce Frankland |
Department for Education URN | 138734 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Headteacher | Duncan Roberts |
Gender | Coeducational |
Age | 11 to 18 |
Enrolment | 987 |
Houses | Thompson Caius Saxie Banstead Morden Trappes |
Former pupils | Old Newportonians |
Website | www |
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.