St George's Academy

St George's Academy
Address
Westgate Sleaford , Lincolnshire , NG34 7PS England
Coordinates	53°00′00″N 0°24′50″W / 53.000°N 0.414°W / 53.000; -0.414
Information
Type	Comprehensive secondary school and Sponsor-led academy
Motto	Aiming High to Achieve Excellence for All[1]
Established	2010 (1908)
Trust	St George's Academy Trust
Department for Education URN	136044 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Chairman of the Governors	Graham Arnold
Principal	Laranya King
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 19
Enrolment	2,220 (February 2015)
Houses	Phipps, Logan, Lovell, Rooksby, Godfrey (Sleaford) Holland, Kesteven and Lindsey (Ruskington)
Website	www.st-georges-academy.org
10km 6miles St George's Academy, Sleaford

St George's Academy is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school based in the English market town of Sleaford in Lincolnshire, with a satellite school at nearby Ruskington.

Its origins date to 1908, when Sleaford Council School opened at Church Lane to meet the growing demand for elementary education in the town. After the Education Act 1944, the senior department became a secondary modern under the name Sleaford Secondary Modern School. A second school was constructed piecemeal at Westholme in the 1950s and early 1960s and expanded in 1983, allowing the Church Lane site to close; to mark the occasion, it was renamed St George's School. After it became grant-maintained, the school became a comprehensive, received a Technology specialism, became a Technology College in 1994 and later converted to Foundation status. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, new buildings were added to the site. Coteland's School in Ruskington federated with St George's in 2007; they merged to form the Academy in 2010. The conversion included a government grant of £20 million to carry out extensive building work on both sites, completed in 2012 at Sleaford and in 2015 at Ruskington.

The Sleaford school opened with a capacity for 600 pupils in 1908, but St George's had over 2,230 on roll across both sites in 2021, including the Sixth Form; the Ruskington site, with roughly 350 pupils, makes up a small proportion of the total. Pupils generally sit examinations for General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) or equivalent vocational qualifications in Year Eleven (aged 15–16), and they have a choice of three or four A-levels or vocational options in the sixth form, which is part of the Sleaford Joint Sixth Form consortium with the town's single-sex grammar schools. In 2019, the school received an "average" Progress 8 score; 31% of pupils achieved English and mathematics GCSEs at grade 5 or above, which was lower than the national figure. The average A-Level grade in 2019 was a C, slightly below the national figure; the government's progress score for the Sixth Form is "well below average". An Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) inspection in 2015 graded St George's Academy as "good" in every category.^[2] This rating was confirmed following a short inspection in 2019.^[3]