King Edward Grammar School
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King Edward VI School is a co-educational comprehensive
secondary school in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
, England
. It was previously known as King Edward VI Grammar School.
The School accepts Students from ages 13 to 18, it is attended by 1393 pupils. It is a specialist sports college
and is a Training school for new teachers. Since 2008, the school has also been partnered with Shanghai
Yangjing-Juyan Experimental School in China to develop international links and exchanges between the schools have occurred. From September 2011, the school will operate a college system and incorporate vertical tutoring. Instead of tutor groups being divided by year group, each tutor group will have pupils from all year groups. Tutor groups and pupils will be allocated a college, which will be responsible for their pupil's education and development.
The school was rated "Good" in its 2009 Ofsted Inspection and achieved a 64% A*-C pass rate at GCSE in the 2011 results and an 84% A*-C pass rate at A Level.
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...
secondary school in Bury St Edmunds, 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...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. It was previously known as King Edward VI Grammar School.
The School accepts Students from ages 13 to 18, it is attended by 1393 pupils. It is a specialist sports college
Sports College
Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enables secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, PE, sports and dance. Schools that successfully apply to the Specialist Schools Trust and become Sports...
and is a Training school for new teachers. Since 2008, the school has also been partnered with Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
Yangjing-Juyan Experimental School in China to develop international links and exchanges between the schools have occurred. From September 2011, the school will operate a college system and incorporate vertical tutoring. Instead of tutor groups being divided by year group, each tutor group will have pupils from all year groups. Tutor groups and pupils will be allocated a college, which will be responsible for their pupil's education and development.
The school was rated "Good" in its 2009 Ofsted Inspection and achieved a 64% A*-C pass rate at GCSE in the 2011 results and an 84% A*-C pass rate at A Level.