Stanborough School is a secondary

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school located in

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, Hertfordshire, England. Like most secondary schools, it has a sixth form. It is situated off ''Stanborough Road'' (A6129), near the A1(M), and across the road from the headquarters of

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, a golf driving range and the Gosling Sports Park (with an athletics track and ski slope). The

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is about 1 km away. It was created by Richard Dickington during WW2 for evacuated children to still get an education. It was originally a Grammar school (1939-1968), then a Comprehensive school (1968-2012), and now it is a Academy (2012-present).

History

Grammar school

It was founded as a selective

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in 1939, and so recently celebrated its 80th year. It had around 550 boys & girls in the 1960s.

Comprehensive

It became an all-ability

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in 1968. In the early 1980s it had around 900 boys and girls.

Merger with Sir John Newsom School

In September 1998, nearby Sir John Newsom School was merged with Stanborough School and its pupils transferred across to Stanborough site.

Academy status

The school gained academy status in February 2012 with a specialism in Maths and Computing. The school is now independent of local authority control and legally is a

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registered at

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with registration number 07900439.

Sixth Form Consortium

Stanborough Sixth form is part of a wider consortium of many secondary schools in the area. Stanborough offers a range of subjects at A level on site. English, History, Mathematics, Science, Computer Science, Psychology are just a few examples. Other schools aligned with the sixth form consortium include: *

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* Bishop's Hatfield Girls' School * Onslow St Audrey's School

Academic performance

Stanborough School often achieves GCSE results above the national average, with 51% of pupils achieving the equivalent of five or more GCSEs grade C or above including English and Maths in 2012. Their A Level results are consistently one of the highest of maintained schools in Hertfordshire.

Notable former pupils

Welwyn Garden City Stanborough Grammar School

* Prof

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, Professor of Pure Mathematics since 1999 at the

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, musician and UK

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representative in 2015 * Michael Peacock OBE, television executive, Controller of BBC1 from 1965–7, and chairman from 1989 to 1995 of

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* Prof Michael Talbot, James and Constance Alsop Professor of Music from 1986 to 2003 at the

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, poet * Prof. Jonathan Gregory, Professor of Climate Change and Modelling at the

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and the

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. *

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, 2021

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References

External links

* {{authority control Secondary schools in Hertfordshire Schools in Welwyn Garden City Educational institutions established in 1939 1939 establishments in England Academies in Hertfordshire