Royal Kepier Grammar School
| Motto | Believe in You |
|---|---|
| Established | 1574 |
| Type | Academy |
| Principal | Nicola Cooper |
| Founder | Bernard Gilpin |
| Location |
Dairy Lane Houghton-le-Spring Tyne and Wear DH4 5BH England 54°50′25″N 1°28′26″W / 54.84015°N 1.47395°WCoordinates: 54°50′25″N 1°28′26″W / 54.84015°N 1.47395°W |
| Local authority | Sunderland City Council |
| DfE URN | 137262 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 11–16 |
| Website | www.kepier.com |
Kepier School is a coeducational secondary school located in Houghton-le-Spring in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England.
Kepier School offers GCSEs, BTECs and OCR Nationals as programmes of study for pupils. The school also operates a five-year football academy programme for gifted young players.
The school was built and endowed in 1574 by Bernard Gilpin, an influential clergyman who became known as the 'Apostle of the North' and was associated with Houghton-le-Spring.
The school has resided since 1990 in its current building, which was formerly the Sancroft School. It was built in 1974 though has had major renovations since it became Houghton Kepier School. The change of building was decided when Houghton-le-Spring Grammar, Shiney Row Comprehensive, Sancroft Comprehensive and Bernard Gilpin Comprehensive began a merger over the latter years of the 1980s.
On the merger, the schools were known as Houghton Kepier School, a name that lasted until 2007 when the school gained specialist Sports College status and was renamed Houghton Kepier Sports College. It became a foundation school in 2006 and converted to academy status in 2011. It wasn't until the incumbent headmistress Nicola Cooper joined the school in 2011 that further changes to the historic logo and name were made and introduced for the autumn term in 2012.
The original Royal Kepier Grammar School still stands off Church Street, though the building used until 1990 is now demolished. In 2015, the school announced it was to demolish its current building and build a state-of-the-art three-storey academy on a disused sports field.
The school has been inspected by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) four times since 2012. In 2012, the inspectors deemed it 'Satisfactory". Both inspections in 2013 saw the school judged as "Requires Improvement", with the inspectors commenting that leaders and managers do not always focus their actions where they are most needed and do not check the impact on students’ achievement. In 2016, the school had improved sufficiently to be rated as "Good", because of "... vastly raised teachers’ expectations of how quickly pupils can make progress in all of the subjects they study."
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