King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds

King Edward VI Church of England Voluntary Controlled Upper School
Motto	*Schola Buriensis*
Established	c. 1550
Type	Comprehensive
Religion	Church of England
Headteacher	Mr Geoff Barton
Location	Grove Road Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 3BH England Coordinates: 52°15′03″N 0°42′15″E / 52.25092°N 0.70418°E / 52.25092; 0.70418
Local authority	Suffolk
DfE URN	124856 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	1393
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	13–18
Houses	Kentwell, Ickworth, Wyken, Elveden, Melford, Hengrave
Former pupils	Old Burians
Website	www.king-ed.suffolk.sch.uk

King Edward VI School is a co-educational comprehensive secondary school^[1] in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. The school in its present form was created in 1972 by the merging of King Edward VI Grammar School with the Silver Jubilee Girls School and the Silver Jubilee Boys School. The school occupies the site of the former Silver Jubilee schools in Grove Road Bury St Edmunds, the former grammar school site at The Vinefields now accommodates St James Middle School.

The School accepts Students from ages 13 to 18, it is attended by 1393 pupils. It is a specialist sports college and is a Training school for new teachers. Since 2008, the school has also been partnered with Shanghai Yangjing-Juyan Experimental School in China to develop international links^[2] and exchanges between the schools have occurred.^[3] From September 2011, the school has operated a collegiate system and incorporated vertical tutoring.

The school was rated "Good" in its 2014 Ofsted Inspection^[4] and achieved a 64% A*-C pass rate at GCSE including English and Maths in the 2011 results, 58% in 2013 and again reported 58% in 2014^[5]^[6] with an 80% A*-C pass rate at A Level.^[7]

There in an active alumni association known as The Old Burians which was established during the era of the former grammar school and continues to recruit new members from the school.

Previous Headmasters

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1553–c1560 John Fenn (deprived of office)
c1670 Edward Leedes
1788–1809 Michael Thomas Becher
1809–1828 Benjamin Heath Malkin
1828–1841 John Edwards
1841–1855 John William Donaldson
1855–1879 Albert Henry Wratislaw
1879–1890 Charles Sankey
Arthur Wright Callis

Old Burians

John Battely – Archdeacon of Canterbury
John Burroughs – architect
Robert Butts – Bishop of Ely
Thomas Clerke, MP
Richard Cumberland – dramatist
Sir Charles Davers, Bt - politician
Roy Flatt – dean of Argyll and The Isles
Edward Greene – founder of Greene King brewery
John Mitchell Kemble – historian
Charles Lee – general in US Continental Army
Dudley Long North – politician
William Sancroft (1617–1693) – 79th Archbishop of Canterbury
Sir William Spring, Bt – politician
Sir Thomas Watson, Bt – President of Royal College of Physicians, physician to queen
John Winthrop the Younger – governor of Connecticut
Edward FitzGerald - Poet and Translator of Rubáiyát of Khayyám

References

External links

King Edward VI School

Schools in Suffolk

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Special	Ashley School The Bridge School Centre Academy East Anglia

Sixth form & FE colleges	Lowestoft College Lowestoft Sixth Form College Otley College of Agriculture and Horticulture Suffolk New College Suffolk One West Suffolk College

Defunct	Amberfield School Felixstowe College Hillcroft Preparatory School Kesgrave Hall School Palgrave Academy RNTE Shotley Sudbury Grammar School Woolverstone Hall School

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