Northgate High School, Ipswich
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Northgate High School (previously comprising Northgate Grammar School for Boys and Northgate Grammar School for Girls) 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 ...
secondary school situated in north
Ipswich Ipswich () is a port town and borough in Suffolk, England, of which it is the county town. The town is located in East Anglia about away from the mouth of the River Orwell and the North Sea. Ipswich is both on the Great Eastern Main Line ...
, Suffolk, England. It is a co-educational comprehensive school, for ages 11–16, and 16-18 in the
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Department. It has approximately 1736 children on roll. , the Headteacher is Rowena Mackie. The school makes use of the Council-run Northgate Sports Centre, which has an Olympic standard running track.


History

It was previously two schools: Northgate Grammar School for Boys and Northgate Grammar School for Girls. Earlier, it was Ipswich Municipal Secondary School.


Language College

Awarded
Language College Language Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the specialist schools programme (SSP) in the United Kingdom. The system enabled secondary schools to specialise in certain fields, in this case, modern foreign languages. Schools that succes ...
status in 1999, this was the first Language College designated in Suffolk. This development led to outreach work taking place in both the school's main feeder schools and across other schools in the county.


Academic performance

In its most recent Ofsted inspection in May 2012, the school was graded as "Good" overall, with a number of individual outstanding grades. GCSE results are consistently above the national and regional averages, and at A-Level it gets results similar to 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 ...
: the fifth best in Suffolk in 2008. In 2013, the school was placed in the top 100 state schools in England.


Notable alumni

* Stuart Boardley, footballer * Gemma Correll, cartoonist *
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, football manager and former player * Liam Trotter, League One footballer * Richard G. Whitman, academic


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References


External links


School website

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