Thomas Clarkson Academy

Thomas Clarkson Academy
Address
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Corporation Road

Wisbech
,
Cambridgeshire
,
PE13 2SE

England
Coordinates52°39′19″N 0°09′50″E / 52.65518°N 0.16402°E / 52.65518; 0.16402
Information
TypeAcademy
EstablishedJune 2012[1]
TrustBrooke Weston Trust
Department for Education URN137867 Tables
OfstedReports
PrincipalRichard Scott
GenderMixed
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1220
Capacity1400
Websitewww.thomasclarksonacademy.org
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Thomas Clarkson Academy

Thomas Clarkson Academy is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England. A new school building has been constructed that was designed by Ken Shuttleworth and Make Architects.[2]

Formerly the Queen's School, it was established following the merger of the secondary modern Queen's Girls' School and Queen's Boys' School in the 1970s. It was renamed Thomas Clarkson Community College in 2007 under the Fresh Start programme following an Ofsted report that judged it to be a 'failing school'.[3] It is named after Thomas Clarkson, the Wisbech-born abolitionist and leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.

The school was converted to academy status in June 2012 and was renamed Thomas Clarkson Academy.[1] As an academy, the school is sponsored by Brooke Weston Trust.[4]

It offers a range of GCSEs and BTECs to pupils as courses of study. Sixth form have options to study a range of A Levels and BTECs.

  1. ^ a b "Ofsted inspections". ofsted.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference RIBA was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Decision to shut 'failing' school, BBC News, 1 March 2007
  4. ^ "Thomas Clarkson Academy - GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2020.