Northgate High School (Ipswich)
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Northgate High School is a high school situated in Ipswich
Ipswich
Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...
, Suffolk
Suffolk
Suffolk is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in East Anglia, England. It has borders with Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south. The North Sea lies to the east...
. It is a co-educational comprehensive school
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
, for ages 11–16, and 16-18 in the Sixth Form Department. It has approximately 1600 children on roll.
Admissions
, the Headteacher is David Hutton, who was appointed in October 2009, taking over from former long-serving Headteacher Neil Watts, who retired at the end of the 2008/9 academic year. Mr Hutton had served previously as Deputy Head at the school.The school has dual Language College
Language College
Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages...
and Science College
Science College
Science Colleges were introduced in 2002 as part of the now defunct Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, science and mathematics...
specialist status, and has specially equipped centres for both subjects following the school's extensive re-development programme throughout the 90s. The school also makes use of the Council-run Northgate Sports Centre, which has an Olympic standard running track..
History
It was previously two schools: Northgate Grammar School for Boys and Northgate Grammar School for Girls. Previous to that it was Ipswich Municipal Secondary School.Language College
Awarded Language College status in 1999, this was the first Language College designated in Suffolk. This development has led to outreach work taking place in both the school's main feeder schools and across other schools in the county. .Academic performance
In its most recent OfstedOfsted
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inspection in February 2008, the school was graded as "Outstanding" overall, with a number of individual outstanding grades. GCSE results are consistently above the national and regional averages, and at A-Level it gets results similar to a grammar school
Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
: the fifth best in Suffolk in 2008.
Notable alumni
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Northgate Grammar School (both parts)
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