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Stoke Park School is a
coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...
secondary school and
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located in
Coventry Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed b ...
, West Midlands, England. It was established in 1919 as a
grammar school A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented secondary school ...
, but later became comprehensive. Previously a foundation school and
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administered by Coventry City Council, in October 2017 Stoke Park School converted to academy status. The school is now sponsored by The Futures Trust. Stoke Park School offers
GCSEs The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a particular subject, taken in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. State schools in Scotland use the Scottish Qualifications Certificate instead. Private sc ...
and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels,
Cambridge Technicals Cambridge Technicals are vocational qualifications, offered by Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR) in the United Kingdom, and Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) internationally; both are part of Cambridge University Press & Assess ...
and further BTECs.


Notable former pupils

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, motorcyclist * Marcus Hall, former footballer *
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, comedian * Christine Oddy, politician * Pa Salieu, rapper


References


External links


Stoke Park School official website
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