Rushden Community College
Encyclopedia
Rushden Community College is a co-educational comprehensive school in Rushden
, Northamptonshire
. Founded in 1977, it is a specialist mathematics
and computing
college. The current Head Teacher is Mr Mark Lester, who was previously head at Kettering Science Academy
. There were approximately 1000 students in Years 7 to 11 on roll in the 2009-2010 college year, plus around 200 students in the Sixth Form. There are approximately 70 teaching staff and 60 support staff.
The school was formerly the Chichele College for Girls until around 1990 when it was amalgamated to become The Rushden School. In 2005 it became the Rushden Community College.
in 2008 as Ofsted
deemed that it was "failing to give its students an acceptable standard of education and the persons responsible for leading,
managing or governing the college are not demonstrating the capacity to secure the necessary
improvement in the college.".
However since then the College has improved significantly. In the college's latest OFSTED report it was deemed to be at least satisfactory in all areas. In 2009 the College achieved record results of 48% of students gaining at least 5 GCSEs at C grade or above including English and Mathematics, an improvement of 15.6% over the previous year.
Rushden
Rushden is a town and civil parish in the county of Northamptonshire, England.The parish of Rushden covers an area of some and is part of the district of East Northamptonshire. The population of Rushden was estimated at around 28,368, making it the fifth largest town in the county...
, Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...
. Founded in 1977, it is a specialist mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and computing
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
college. The current Head Teacher is Mr Mark Lester, who was previously head at Kettering Science Academy
Kettering Science Academy
Kettering Science Academy is a Science School in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, teaching pupils from age 3 to 18....
. There were approximately 1000 students in Years 7 to 11 on roll in the 2009-2010 college year, plus around 200 students in the Sixth Form. There are approximately 70 teaching staff and 60 support staff.
The school was formerly the Chichele College for Girls until around 1990 when it was amalgamated to become The Rushden School. In 2005 it became the Rushden Community College.
Special Measures and improvement
The college was placed in Special measuresSpecial measures
Special measures is a status applied by Ofsted and Estyn, the schools inspection agencies, to schools in England and Wales, respectively, when it considers that they fail to supply an acceptable level of education and appear to lack the leadership capacity necessary to secure improvements...
in 2008 as Ofsted
Ofsted
The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
deemed that it was "failing to give its students an acceptable standard of education and the persons responsible for leading,
managing or governing the college are not demonstrating the capacity to secure the necessary
improvement in the college.".
However since then the College has improved significantly. In the college's latest OFSTED report it was deemed to be at least satisfactory in all areas. In 2009 the College achieved record results of 48% of students gaining at least 5 GCSEs at C grade or above including English and Mathematics, an improvement of 15.6% over the previous year.