Penrice Academy is a secondary

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and former specialist

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, England. The school has an enrollment of 1,428.

History

The school opened in 1960 as a secondary modern school, Penrice Secondary Modern School, becoming a comprehensive in the 1970s. It gained academy status on 1 April 2011. Penrice Academy Logo

Curriculum

Languages taught include French, Spanish, German and Mandarin. It is also an International School, having received a Gold International School Award from the British Council for a third time in 2012. Other strengths are Creative and Digital Arts, English and Science. The academy sends record numbers of students onto A Level Science courses.

Admissions

The academy has a teacher training programme and has achieved

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status. Since 2020, the principal has been Lucy Gambier. Now in 2023, the new headmistress is named Tanya Coleman The uniform is a black blazer, black V-neck jumper with a gold strip around the neck (optional), a gold and black striped tie and black trousers. The student leaders (prefects) wear the same uniform, but with a silver-black stripe tie, or a full-black tie with a logo for senior student leaders.

Academic performance

The academy achieves well above-average

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results. In 2023, the school had a Progress 8 score of +0.57, with 80% of pupils earning 9-4 grades in GCSE English and Mathematics. Like most secondary schools in Cornwall, it does not have a sixth form and students go onto either

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. The academy is currently graded "Outstanding" by Ofsted, being the top performing school in Cornwall and was one of the first schools to be designated a 'Teaching School' in England.

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