The Stourport Academy & VIth Form Centre, formerly known as the Stourport High School and Language College, opened to students in 1956 as an 11-18 school. The starting age was increased to 13 during the 1970s, and was reverted back to 11 in 2007 (as part of the Wyre Forest Review). The school is located in the town of Stourport-on-Severn

Stourport-on-Severn

Stourport-on-Severn, often shortened to Stourport, is a town and civil parish in the Wyre Forest District of North Worcestershire, England, a few miles to the south of Kidderminster and down stream on the River Severn from Bewdley...

 in Worcestershire

Worcestershire

Worcestershire is a non-metropolitan county, established in antiquity, located in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes it is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three counties that comprise the "Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire" NUTS 2 region...

, 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 built to replace the Stourport Secondary Modern School, which was formerly Lickhill Middle.

Present Day

In January 2009, Ofsted graded the school as 1 (Outstanding) on their 4-point scale.
Elizabeth Quinn, the current headteacher, won the 2009 secondary headteacher of the year award for the West Midlands region.

On 5th July 2010, Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove

Michael Gove

Michael Andrew Gove, MP is a British politician, who currently serves as the Secretary of State for Education and as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for the Surrey Heath constituency. He is also a published author and former journalist.Born in Edinburgh, Gove was raised in Aberdeen...

, announced that the planned rebuild of the school would be cancelled with the scrapping of the Building Schools for the Future

Building Schools for the Future

Building Schools for the Future is the name of the previous UK Government's investment programme in secondary school buildings in England. The program is very ambitious in its costs, timescales and objectives, with politicians from all English political parties supportive of the principle but...

 programme.

In an article published by the Kidderminster Shuttle

Kidderminster Shuttle

The Shuttle, formerly known as the Kidderminster Shuttle, is a free weekly newspaper distributed to households in the Wyre Forest area of Worcestershire, England on a Thursday...

 in November 2011, The Stourport High School & VIth Form Centre was named as having one of the highest truancy rates in the region, with a figure of 2.4%, said to be 'Double the Worcestershire average'.

Sport and Local Involvement

The Sixth Form are regular entrants into the(5-a-side football) Kidderminster Premier League. In the 2009/2010 season, both an A and B team were entered into the league with the A team finishing as league champions and the B team finishing fourth. The Sixth Form are hoping to repeat this success in the 2010 season with just the one team.

Stourport is part of a Worcestershire organisation called ContinU, a trust that creates more courses for students attending secondary, and high schools in the Wyre Forest and Hagley area.
Stourport is currently working with:

• Baxter College
  Baxter College
  Baxter College is a state comprehensive mixed secondary school located in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England. Prior to September 2002 the school was known as Harry Cheshire High School. The school provides education for pupils aged 11 to 18 years, and offers a wide range of courses at GCSE and...
  
  , Business and Enterprise
• The Bewdley School and Sixth Form Centre
  The Bewdley School and Sixth Form Centre
  The Bewdley School and Sixth Form Centre is a comprehensive school in Bewdley, serving north-west Worcestershire, England. Its campus is very close to the River Severn. In late 2009, The Bewdley School was awarded Specialist Art College status.-History:...
  
  
• Hagley RC High School
  Hagley Rc High School
  Hagley Catholic High School is a voluntary aided, mixed 11-18 school in Hagley, Worcestershire. The school holds specialist Arts College status, and was accorded a Grade 2 in its Ofsted report. The school plays host to students studying for Key Stage 3, GCSE, AS and A-level examinations...
  
  
• Haybridge High School
  Haybridge High School
  Haybridge High School and Sixth Form is a 11–18 mixed comprehensive school with approximately 1,250 students in Hagley, serving North West Worcestershire. The school is a Technology College, with the two additional specialisms of Applied Learning and Sports...
  
  
• King Charles I School
  King Charles I School
  King Charles I School is a voluntary controlled mixed school in the town of Kidderminster, in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England.-Present Day and OFSTED:...
  
  
• Stourminster and Blakebrook Special Needs School
• Wolverley C E Secondary School
  Wolverley C E Secondary School
  Wolverley C E Secondary School is a secondary school located in Wolverley village, near Kidderminster in Worcestershire, England. The school opened in 2007, following the closure of its predecessor, Wolverley High School, as part of the local area reorganisation from three-tier education...