Adcote
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| Motto |
Latin: Nisi Dominus Frustra "Without the Lord, everything is in vain" |
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| Established | 1907 |
| Type | Independent day and boarding school |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Headmistress | Mrs. Diane Browne |
| Chairman of Governors | Mark Fairbrother |
| Founder | Mrs Amy Gough |
| Location |
Little Ness Shrewsbury Shropshire SY4 2JY England |
| Staff | 60 |
| Students | 217 (90 boarders) |
| Gender | Girls |
| Ages | 5–18 |
| Houses | Glenmore Haughton Innage |
| Colours | Blue, Green |
| Chaplain | Reverend Lucinda Burns |
| Former pupils | Adcotians |
| Website | www |
Adcote School is an independent day and boarding school for girls, located in the village of Little Ness, 5 miles (8.0 km) northwest of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The school was founded in 1907, and is set in a Grade I listed country house built in 1879 for Rebecca Darby, the widow of Alfred Darby I (1807–52) and a great niece of Abraham Darby. The Darbys were the iron-master family who built Ironbridge. The school has a Junior School that takes girls aged 5 to 11, and the Senior School for girls aged 11 to 16 and a Sixth Form takes girls from 16–19.
As of April 2016, the school is owned by IQ Education (IQE), a Chinese backed education company based in Birmingham. The school transferred from a charity to a limited company status, managed by IQE.
The school is a member of the Girls School Association, the Independent Schools Association and the Independent Schools Council. In 2012, the school won the Independent Schools Association 'Award for Excellence', reflecting whole school achievement in independent education. In January 2013, the Department for Education ranked Adcote fourth in England in its A Level performance tables. In 2014, the school was awarded the Gold Award by the Mayor of Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury Town Council, recognising the school’s “outstanding contribution to the community”. In 2015, the school was shortlisted in the national TES Independent School Awards; the school had previously been shortlisted in 2011 and 2014.
The school established an international office in Birmingham to assist with international recruitment. As of September 2016 the School has completed the construction of a new purpose-built boarding houses, new classrooms, a sports hall, administration block as well as a new Science Centre.
The school was founded on 18 January 1907 by Mrs Amy Gough, with two-day pupils and five boarders in Glenmore House in the village of Doseley near Wellington, Shropshire. The school grew quickly and the roll was thirty-one after two years. In 1915 the school moved into the larger Innage House in Shifnal. The numbers of boarders doubled and two years later a second boarding house was needed.
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