Chipping Sodbury School is a coeducational

secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

and sixth form, located in

Chipping Sodbury Chipping Sodbury is a market town and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sodbury, in the unitary authority area of South Gloucestershire, in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, England. It was founded in the 12th century by William ...

in the Unitary authority of South Gloucestershire, England. It shares ground with the Cotswold Edge sixth-form. Chipping Sodbury School was previously administered by

South Gloucestershire Council South Gloucestershire Council is the local authority of South Gloucestershire, England, covering an area to the north of the city of Bristol. As a Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority it has the powers of a non-metropolitan county a ...

and the Chipping Sodbury School Co-operative Trust as a

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. In April 2021 the school converted to academy status and is now part of The Athelstan Trust. The school has been on its present site since 1938, when Chipping Sodbury Grammar School moved there. It became a comprehensive school in 1970. Chipping Sodbury Grammar School had been established in 1913, in what is now the building called the Old Grammar School and Chipping Sodbury Library. This building has since been owned by Chipping Sodbury Town Hall and the Townlands Charity. Before converting into an academy, the school had been given 'requires improvement' ratings by the educational review body

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at inspections in December 2013, December 2015 and June 2018. Chipping Sodbury School offers GCSEs, BTECs and OCR Nationals as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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and further BTECs. The sixth form provision of the school is offered in conjunction with

Brimsham Green School Brimsham Green School is a comprehensive secondary school in Yate, South Gloucestershire, England. Situated toward the northern edge of Yate and serving both the town and adjacent South Gloucestershire villages, Brimsham Green School has moder ...

and

Yate Academy Yate Academy (formerly King Edmund Community School) is a secondary school located in the town of Yate in South Gloucestershire, on the outskirts of Bristol, England. It was founded in 1953. In 2007, Rob Gibson, the (former) headteacher of The ...

in Yate. As of 2018, the school had 772 pupils.

Notable former pupils

* Roger Morris, Bishop of Colchester

References

External links

Chipping Sodbury School official website
{{authority control Secondary schools in South Gloucestershire District Academies in South Gloucestershire District