Seaford Head Community College
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Seaford Head Community College (SHCC), in the town of Seaford, East Sussex
Seaford, East Sussex
Seaford is a coastal town in the county of East Sussex, on the south coast of England. Lying east of Newhaven and Brighton and west of Eastbourne, it is the largest town in Lewes district, with a population of about 23,000....

, England, is a co-educational comprehensive
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...

 school for students aged 11 to 16 years.

It has over 1200 students, and formerly had a sixth-form, from which its last students left in 2009. The closure was due to increasing competition from the larger, and expanding, Sussex Downs College
Sussex Downs College
Sussex Downs College is a further education college in East Sussex, England, that was established in 2001 through a merger of Lewes Tertiary College and Eastbourne College of Arts and Technology, with Park Sixth Form College in Eastbourne added in 2003...

 conglomerate. The school was in Ofsted special measures from 2004 to 2006. An Ofsted inspection was carried out in October 2010 and the school was judged "Good with many outstanding features" and will be reassessed in the next 5 years (2015 at the latest). The school did extremely well jumping from special measures in 2005 to an almost outstanding Ofsted report. The report is available online at http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/ .

The school is a Specialist Science & Sports College, holding the Sport England Award Sportsmark
Sportsmark
Sportsmark is Sport England's accreditation scheme for secondary schools. The scheme recognises a school's out of hours sports provision.Sportsmark awards are given to secondary schools for provision for sport and physical education. They are currently being reviewed along with Activemark awards...

. It also holds the British Council International School Award and the ArtsMark award from the English Art Council. It is a part of Healthy Schools East Sussex, which promotes healthy eating and lifestyles, and is a member of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.

In 2010 Seaford Head submitted an Expression of Interest (EoI) to the Department of Education in becoming a trust school; as of November 2010 the process is in the second consultation period.

External links

  • http://www.school-portal.co.uk/Grouphomepage.asp?GroupId=320416
  • http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupWorkspaces.asp?GroupId=335061&WorkspaceId=1642036
  • http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupDownloadFile.asp?GroupId=993040&ResourceId=3167846
  • http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_reports/download/(id)/125875/(as)/114589_357578.pdf
  • http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/oxedu_providers/full/(urn)/114589/(type)/8192/(typename)/Secondary%20education
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