Wollaston School is a

co-educational 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 t ...

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and

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located in Wollaston in the

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Northamptonshire Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...

. The Wollaston School catchment area includes the villages of

Bozeat Bozeat is a village and civil parish in the postal district of Wellingborough, North Northamptonshire, England, about south of Wellingborough on the A509 road, near Wollaston. At the time of the 2011 census, Bozeat's population (including E ...

Brafield-on-the-Green Brafield-on-the-Green is a civil parish and small village in West Northamptonshire, West Northamptonshire. The villages name means 'Hill-top open country'. Location Brafield is about south-east of Northampton, in the shire county of Northamp ...

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Cogenhoe Cogenhoe ( , ) is a village in West Northamptonshire, England. The civil parish of ''Cogenhoe and Whiston'' had a population at the 2011 census of 1,436. The village of Cogenhoe is some five miles (8 km) east of the county town, Northam ...

, Denton,

Easton Maudit Easton Maudit is a small village and civil parish in rural Northamptonshire. It takes its name from the Maudit (or Mauduit) family who purchased the estate at what was then just Easton, in 1131. There was no residential landowner in the village u ...

, Great Houghton, Grendon,

Irchester Irchester is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, two miles (3 km) south-east of Wellingborough and two miles south-west of Rushden. The population of the village at the 2011 Census was 5,706 and estimated in 2019 at 5,767. ...

, Little Houghton, Strixton, Whiston, Wollaston and

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. However pupils from

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and surrounding villages are admitted when places are available. Previously a community school administered by

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, in April 2019 Wollaston School converted to academy status and is now sponsored by the Nene Valley Partnership. Wollaston School offers

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, BTECs and other vocational courses as programmes of study for pupils, while sixth form students can choose to study from range of

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and further BTECs.

References

External links

Wollaston School official website
Secondary schools in North Northamptonshire Academies in North Northamptonshire {{Northamptonshire-school-stub