De Aston School is a mixed secondary school with academy status in

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, England. It also has a sixth form but no longer has a boarding house as of 2020, following the country's decision to leave the

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, due to its declining popularity and dwindling funds. The school has a broad Christian ethos but accommodates those of other faiths.

Admissions

The school has 1,002

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s. The school used to provide boarding accommodation for around 80 pupils, many of whom came from abroad. De Aston was a

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History

Grammar school

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De Aston School was founded in 1863 as a small

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, as part of a legal settlement following a court case involving funds from the medieval charity of Thomas De Aston, a 14th-century monk. Until 1995, the school's Foundation Governors also owned the chapel at the site of the charity's Almshouses at

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, 10 miles to the west. The school's headmaster originally had his own house on the school site. The Victorian Gothic red brick house was built in 1863 and was designated as a Grade II listed building by

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in 1984. The original buildings was designed by the Louth Architect James Fowler and further additions were added in 1904-6 by the Lincoln architect Herbert Dunn. As a grammar school it was administered by the Lindsey Education Committee, based in Lincoln, and became co-educational in 1971.

Comprehensive

It became a comprehensive in 1974 (when Lincoln became comprehensive), amalgamating with Market Rasen Secondary Modern School on Kilnwell Road. At the same time, new buildings were opened.

Academy

The school converted to academy status in March 2011.

Headteachers

* Simon Porter 2017-current day (as of 2022 13 sept)

Media

In March 2001, at the

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's conference in Newport, Ellenor Beighton,

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, spoke out against the current funding system for schools. Then in July 2001 Former Headmaster Anthony Neal disagreed with School Standards Minister

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over the benefits of

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saying that they create a two-tier system. Homework was being publicly discussed in December 2001 in the wake of

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's request to the

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for information to help with her son's homework. Neal commented that homework was essential and central to the fact that standards were rising. Police apologised to the school, in November 2006, after a computer error wrongly put it at the top of a national table for the number of police call-outs.

Notable former pupils

Professor Anthony Davenport
Professor of Cardiovascular Pharmacology &

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of St Catherine’s College,

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. Director of the Human Receptor Research group. * Phil Boulton, Professional

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and

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. * Sir David Chadwick, Secretary from 1927-46 of the Imperial Economic Committee *

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, military historian and author * Sir

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CBE, Conservative MP from 1931-45 for

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, television director whose credits include the controversial ''Jamaica Inn'', and ''

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from 2007–08 * John Scupham OBE, Controller of Educational Broadcasting from 1963-65 of the BBC *

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, songwriter of the

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Richard Wakerley
barrister * Edward Welbourne, Master of Emmanuel College Cambridge from 1951–64 *

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, illustrator * Prof Charles Wilson CBE, Professor of Modern History from 1965-79 at the

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, co-founder of

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* Peter Glover, Rugby Union player who represented England, the Barbarians, Bath and the Combined Services (Navy, Army and Air Force). * Professor Timothy David Veal, Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool. Author of ''InN and related alloys'' * Dr Garry Campion FRHistS, historian.

Market Rasen Secondary Modern School

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, lyricist for

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*John Gladwin

References

External links

*
De Aston school history - contains details of former pupils circa 1900.

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