Goodwin Academy (formerly Castle Community College) is a
mixed secondary school and
sixth form
In the education systems of England, Northern Ireland, Wales, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and some other Commonwealth countries, sixth form represents the final two years of secondary education, ages 16 to 18. Pupils typically prepare for A-l ...
located in
Deal
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Elsewhere
* Deal Island (Tasmania), Australia
* Deal, Kent, a town in England
* Deal, ...
in the
English county of
Kent
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.
The school was converted to
academy status on 1 October 2010. It was previously a
community school administered by
Kent County Council, however Goodwin Academy continues to coordinate with Kent County Council for admissions.
The school is sponsored by the
Thinking Schools Academy Trust.
History
Castle Community College was converted to
academy status on 1 October 2010. was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in 2011
before dropping to
Special Measures
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In education (England and Wales)
Ofsted, the schools inspection agency for England and some British Overseas Ter ...
three years later.
In the interim it had merged and taken on 400 pupils from the former Walmer Science College, The
SchoolsCompany Trust sponsored the school to help it improve and renamed it to SchoolsCompany Goodwin Academy. It was inspected again February 2016 and found to require improvement,
then in March 2016, the SchoolsCompany trust collapsed, was disbanded and was stripped of all four of the schools it sponsored. The school, calling itself The Goodwin Academy, became independent before being sponsored by the
Thinking Schools Academy Trust and was renamed to be Goodwin Academy.
Overview
Ofsted in its report of 2016 describes the school as a calm smaller average secondary school with a very stable population. The levels of deprivation were high, and the effects of years of difficulty were still hampering progress.
Buildings
The school is housed on a single site in a 3 storey building that opened in September 2017.
Academics
Goodwin Academy offers
GCSEs
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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,
OCR Nationals
OCR Nationals are vocationally related qualifications which were officially launched by the OCR Board in September 2004. The qualifications are designed to meet the needs of those seeking vocational education in place of the traditional, theory-i ...
and further BTECs.
References
External links
Goodwin Academy official website
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Secondary schools in Kent
Academies in Kent