St John's Marlborough
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| Established | 1975 |
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| Type | Academy |
| Headteacher | Mrs N. Edmondson |
| Location |
Stedman Building Granham Hill Marlborough Wiltshire SN8 4AX England 51°24′55″N 1°43′42″W / 51.41527°N 1.72841°WCoordinates: 51°24′55″N 1°43′42″W / 51.41527°N 1.72841°W |
| DfE number | 865/5405 |
| DfE URN | 138623 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
| Students | 1,635 |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Houses |
Green Yellow Red Blue |
| Website | School homepage |
St John's Marlborough (formerly St John's School and Community College) is a mixed secondary school with academy status in Marlborough, Wiltshire for students aged 11 to 18, opened in 1975. It offers "a range of Adult Education courses". As of January 2011[update] the school has 1,635 students. It is in the south of the town, and since 1996 it has been headed by Patrick Hazlewood.
St John's may teach for the International Baccalaureate, an internationally recognised qualification. Every year, St John's collect second hand, but perfectly pristine, books in order to provide libraries, in non-affluent neighbourhoods in Africa, with learning material for the local children. In 2013, an exchange between St Johns, Marlborough and a school near Washington, D.C. was implemented.
The exchange was planned and implemented by an American, English teacher that formerly lived in the area of exchange near Washington, D.C. Cultural exchanges such as the American one above are not uncommon at St John's as other exchanges such as French and German are run each year. St John's work to give students an understanding of our world and make the study of at least one language obligatory. Other extra-curricular activities with regard to languages are run.
The school was formed in 1975 as a new comprehensive school, taking over the buildings and many of the staff of the recently closed Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School and the Marlborough Secondary Modern School on Chopping Knife Lane. The grammar school had been founded in 1550. The school's Savernake building was the former secondary modern school.
In 1998 the school was awarded its first specialism in Technology, and in 2005 its second in Languages. After the rebuilding of the school on a new site at Granham Hill, the buildings of two former schools were demolished in 2010.
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