Stalham High School is a mixed

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located in

Stalham Stalham is a market town and civil parish on the River Ant in the English county of Norfolk, in East Anglia. It covers an area of and had a population of 2,951 in 1,333 households at the 2001 census, the population increasing to 3,149 at the 20 ...

in the

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Description

It is one of the smallest high schools in Norfolk, with 431 pupils on the roll in January 2015. The school mainly admits pupils from surrounding primary schools in Catfield, East Ruston, Hickling,

Lessingham Lessingham is a village and a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is 16.3 south-east of Cromer, 17.6 miles north-east of Norwich and 136 miles north-east of London. The village lies 9 miles south-east of the town of North W ...

Ludham Ludham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, in the Norfolk Broads, at the end of a dyke leading to Womack Water and flowing into the River Thurne. It lies to the East of Ludham Bridge, which is on the River Ant. It cov ...

, Stalham,

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and

Worstead Worstead is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It lies south of North Walsham, north of Wroxham, and north of Norwich. The village is served by Worstead railway station on the Bittern Line. For the purposes of local ...

. The school offers

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as well as a range of vocational courses as programmes of study for pupils. On 1 January 2015, the school was given academy status, sponsored by the North Norfolk Academy Trust, led by

Sheringham High School Sheringham High School is a secondary school and sixth form located in the town of Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk. The school has around 700 students, usually including between 160 and 180 in the sixth form centre.Humanities College Humanities Colleges are a type of specialist school introduced in 2004 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary and primary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, humanities ...

as part of the

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and it was a member of the

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IT Academy programme.

References

External links

Stalham High School official website
{{authority control Secondary schools in Norfolk Academies in Norfolk Educational institutions established in 1939 Stalham 1939 establishments in England