Bishop Stopford School is a secondary school and

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with academy status in

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Northamptonshire Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...

, England. The school is located in the Headlands, Kettering. The current

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is Jill Silverthorne. Former students of Bishop Stopford are known as Old Stopfordians.

History

Bishop Stopford School was founded in 1965 as a purpose-built

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institution, as a replacement for its precursor, a school founded in 1535 by the rector of

St Peter and St Paul's Church, Kettering St Peter and St Paul's Church, Kettering is a Church of England parish church in Kettering, Northamptonshire. It is a Grade I listed building. History Little is known of the origins of the church, its first known priest becoming rector in 1219 ...

. The former bishop of Peterborough,

Robert Stopford Robert Wright Stopford, (20 February 1901 – 13 August 1976) was a British Anglican bishop. Early life and education Stopford was born in Garston, Merseyside (then in Lancashire), and educated at Coatham School in Redcar and Liverpool Coll ...

, agreed to the new school being named after him. Bishop Stopford School soon introduced a sixth form and admitted its first fully comprehensive intake in 1976. On 23 May 2012, Bishop Stopford opened an extension to the sixth-form, with a study area, two seminar rooms and an additional classroom. The number on roll has more than doubled since 1965 to approximately 1450 students, with a sixth form of approximately 400. The school converted to academy status in August 2011. Previous headteachers were James Colquhoun until 2001, and Margaret Holman from 2001 to 2018.

Sixth form

Bishop Stopford School Sixth Form has approximately 400 students and offers 30 subjects.

School performance and inspections

Before the school became an academy, its last full inspection by Ofsted was in 2008, with a judgement of Outstanding. The report noted that the school "serves an area which is mostly socially and economically advantaged".

References

External links

Bishop Stopford School

The Woodard Corporation - Church of England Schools
{{Authority control Academies in North Northamptonshire Woodard Schools Church of England secondary schools in the Diocese of Peterborough Educational institutions established in the 1530s 1535 establishments in England Secondary schools in North Northamptonshire