Northgate High School (previously comprising Northgate Grammar School for Boys and Northgate Grammar School for Girls) is a

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situated in north

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, England. It is a co-educational

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, 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

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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

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inspection in November 2019, 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

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: the fifth best in Suffolk in 2008. In 2013, the school was placed in the top 100 state schools in England.

Notable alumni

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CBE, Forbes Professor from 1947 to 1968 of

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at the

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from 1959 to 1964 and President from 1956 to 1958 of the

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References

External links

School website

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