The Blue School is a coeducational, secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 located in Wells

Wells

Wells is a cathedral city and civil parish in the Mendip district of Somerset, England, on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. Although the population recorded in the 2001 census is 10,406, it has had city status since 1205...

, Somerset

Somerset

The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...

, England. It has 1,430 students aged 11 to 18 of both sexes and all ability levels. It is currently a Church of England

Church of England

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 voluntary controlled school

Voluntary controlled school

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. The school motto is "Recta Certa" meaning straight and true. It became an Academy in August 2011.

An Ofsted

Ofsted

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 inspection in 2007 judged the school to be 'outstanding', while the next Ofsted inspection in 2010 rated the school as 'good', with outstanding elements.
The school is a Specialist 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...

 and in 2006 the Princess Royal

Anne, Princess Royal

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 opened a new science centre.
The Blue School was the first pilot for an innovative approach to school councils based on self-selection called Learning to Lead  The School Community Council received praise in the School's 2007 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 ....

 report.

The school council runs on principles of self-election, and has over 250 members, including students of all ages and staff.