St Paul's Academy (formerly St Paul's Catholic School) is a mixed

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secondary school located in southeast

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, England.

History

St Paul’s Catholic Secondary School was established in a Victorian school board building on Wickham Lane, Abbey Wood, in 1968. The school was converted to academy status in 2005, sponsored by the

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. The school relocated to new buildings in 2010. Previously the school was under the control of

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, and St Paul's continues to coordinate with Greenwich London Borough Council for admissions. 33% of school places are reserved for pupils from the local community, while remaining places are allocated to Roman Catholic pupils.

Campus

The new campus is at the corner of Finchale Road and Church Manor Way, in the

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area of the

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Curriculum

St Paul's Academy offers

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and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils. The school has specialisms in Sport and Business & Enterprise, and has additional resources for the specialisms.

Extracurricular activities

The school runs Gaelic football teams in partnership with Dulwich Harps GFC.

Awards and recognition

The school was awarded Beacon Status in 2005. In February 2013 St Paul's was rated as "Good" by Ofsted. In the summer of 2019 St Paul's Academy announced that 10% of their Year 11 GCSE students had earned a Grade 7 or above in 5 or more different subjects, an increase of 1.25% on the year prior.

Notable former pupils

St Paul's School

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Ovie Ejaria Ovie Dominic Ejaria (born 18 November 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Reading in the EFL Championship. He is a former England under-21 international. Club career Ejaria was born in Southwark, Great ...

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, rapper * Nina Brown, rapper

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saint Paul's Academy, Abbey Wood Secondary schools in the Royal Borough of Greenwich Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Southwark Academies in the Royal Borough of Greenwich