The Thetford Academy is a coeducational

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and

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(known as Thomas Paine Sixth Form) with academy status located in

Thetford Thetford is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Breckland District of Norfolk, England. It is on the A11 road (England), A11 road between Norwich and London, just east of Thetford Forest. The civil parish, coverin ...

Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...

, England.

History

Before 2010 the town of

was served by two state secondary schools: Charles Burrell Humanities School and Rosemary Musker High School. In September 2010 these two schools were closed and The Thetford Academy was opened as the sole state secondary school for the town. The Thetford Academy operated over the two former school sites until the new enlarged school building was constructed at the former Rosemary Musker High School site, which was completed in September 2013. The school was originally sponsored by a consortium of

Wymondham College Wymondham College is a coeducational day and boarding school in Morley, Norfolk, Morley, near Wymondham, Norfolk, England. A former grammar school, it is one of 36 state boarding schools in England and the largest of its type in the country, wit ...

, Easton College and

West Suffolk College West Suffolk College is a Further Education college in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The college delivers a range of courses, including vocational and technical courses, apprenticeships, and an array of higher-apprenticeships and bachelor's degree ...

. After the school received an Inadequate judgement from

Ofsted The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's government, reporting to Parliament. Ofsted's role is to make sure that organisations providing education, training ...

in March 2013, the school transferred to Inspiration Trust. The school was reinspected in 2014 and found to be Good, a judgement repeated in 2018 and 2020.

References

External links

The Thetford Academy official websiteThomas Paine Sixth Form official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thetford Academy The Secondary schools in Norfolk Academies in Norfolk Inspiration Trust Thetford