Thomas Clarkson Academy

Thomas Clarkson Academy
Type Academy
Principal Clare Claxton
Location Corporation Road
Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
PE13 2SE
England
Coordinates: 52°39′19″N 0°09′50″E / 52.65518°N 0.16402°E / 52.65518; 0.16402
DfE number 873/4000
DfE URN 137867 Tables
Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–18
Website www.thomasclarksonacademy.org

Thomas Clarkson Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England.

Originally the Queen's School, it was established following the merger of the secondary modern Queen's Girls' School and Queen's Boys' School in the 1970s. It was renamed Thomas Clarkson Community College in 2007 under the Fresh Start initiative following a poor Ofsted examination.[1] It is named after Thomas Clarkson, the Wisbech-born abolitionist and leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.

The school converted to academy status in June 2012 and was renamed Thomas Clarkson Academy.[2] As an academy, the school is sponsored by Brooke Weston Trust. It offers a range of GCSEs and BTECs to pupils as courses of study. Sixth form have options to study a range of A Levels and BTECs. A new school building has been constructed that was designed by Ken Shuttleworth and MAKE Architects.[3]

References

  1. Decision to shut 'failing' school, BBC News, 1 March 2007
  2. New term - new school for Wisbech, Cambridgeshire County Council, 06/01/2012
  3. "Our Building". Thomas Clarkson Academy. Retrieved 2013-04-03.

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