County Upper School
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| Established | 1904 |
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| Type | Academy Converter |
| Headteacher | Mrs Vicky Neale |
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Beetons Way Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP32 6RF England 52°15′24″N 0°42′08″E / 52.25662°N 0.70217°ECoordinates: 52°15′24″N 0°42′08″E / 52.25662°N 0.70217°E |
| DfE URN | 136990 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 91 |
| Students | 992 pupils (209 in 6th Form) |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 13–19 |
| Website | www |
Bury St Edmunds County Upper School is a 13 to 19 co-educational comprehensive high-performing academy part of the Bury St Edmunds All-Through Trust, comprising County Upper School, Horringer Court School, Westley School and Barrow CEVC and Tollgate Primaries. It is one of three 13-18 schools serving the town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England and its surrounding villages. Pupils enter Year 9 primarily from three catchment middle schools in Bury St Edmunds but pupils are drawn widely from across the villages and towns of West Suffolk. The school is often over-subscribed with 266 first-choice applicants in 2009/10, 287 in 2010/11, 282 for 2011/12, 279 for 2012/13 and 268 for 2014/15 against a LEA Planned Admission Number of 260. In September 2013 the number of pupils on roll was 992 and it is expected that will remain relatively unchanged for the foreseeable future. Attached to the main school is a Sixth Form, which at present stands at around 209 students spread between Years 12 and 13. The school is located on Beetons Way, on the outskirts of town, next to St Benedict's Roman Catholic Upper School, with which it used to collaborate in the sixth form.
County Upper School has specialisms in science and languages with an Able and Talented Focus, and is also accredited as a "Consultant School" by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
Together with Westley School, part of the Bury St Edmunds All-Through Trust, it is the Area Hub for West Suffolk and East Cambridgeshire for the Computing At School Network of Excellence as part of the joint effort by the BCS, Chartered Institute for IT and the Computing Industry to provide leadership and strategic guidance to all those involved in Computing education in schools.
The school is accredited with the National College for School Leadership as a Teaching School and is part of the West Suffolk All-Through Teaching School Alliance, to train and develop teachers from September 2013 and it is also the lead Suffolk school in the Suffolk and Norfolk Initial Teacher Training (SNITT) initiative, in partnership with Suffolk County Council and University College Suffolk, which is part of the Department for Education's School Direct Training Programme.
As a school rated by Ofsted as "Outstanding" (1999, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2013) under the Academies Act 2010 County Upper School applied to become a High-Performing Academy – a publicly funded independent school.
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