St Peter's School | |
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Address | |
St Peter's Road , , PE29 7DD | |
Coordinates | 52°20′21″N0°11′08″W / 52.33916°N 0.18552°W Coordinates: 52°20′21″N0°11′08″W / 52.33916°N 0.18552°W |
Information | |
Type | Academy |
Local authority | Cambridgeshire |
Trust | The Cam Academy Trust |
Department for Education URN | 137248 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Headteacher | Christopher Bennet |
Gender | Co-educational |
Age | 11to 18 |
Enrolment | 1078 |
Website | https://www.stpetershuntingdon.org/ |
St Peter's School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Huntingdon in the English county of Cambridgeshire. [1]
St Peter's traces its origins back to a British School, established in 1871 on Grammar School Walk in the town centre. [2] This school relocated to a new building at Brookside, built in 1905, and was known as Brookside School. [3] In 1957 the school moved to its current site on St Peter's Road, opening as a secondary modern school. It later became a comprehensive school. In 2005 the school was granted specialist status as a Mathematics and Computing College.
Previously a foundation school administered by Cambridgeshire County Council, in August 2011 St Peter's School converted to academy status and is now sponsored by The Cam Academy Trust. [4]
St Peter's School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs. [5]
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