The Castle Rock School

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The Castle Rock School
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Address
The Castle Rock School
Meadow Lane

Coalville
,
Leicestershire
,
LE67 4BR

England
Coordinates 52°43′47″N1°19′35″W / 52.7298°N 1.3264°W / 52.7298; -1.3264
Information
Type Academy
TrustLionheart Educational Trust
Department for Education URN 138478 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 18
Website https://www.castlerocksch.uk/

The Castle Rock School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Coalville in the English county of Leicestershire. [1]

Contents

The school was formed in 2020 from the merger of Castle Rock High School and King Edward VII Science and Sport College. The school joined the Lionheart Educational Trust in September 2022.

History

Castle Rock High School

Castle Rock High School first opened in 1958 on an adjacent site which is now occupied by Forest Way School. The school relocated to new buildings next to King Edward VII Science and Sport College in 2006. In August 2012 the school converted to academy status, and in November 2017 it became the lead school of The Apollo Partnership Trust, a multi-academy trust. [2]

King Edward VII

The school was known as King Edward VII Grammar School, named after King Edward VII. On 5 May 1968, a recording of Songs of Praise at the school was broadcast. [3] The school choir was featured on 29 September 1968 on In Every Corner Sing on BBC Radio 4 [4] and also on the Home Service on Children's Hour [5] on 16 July 1950. It later became a comprehensive school and was renamed King Edward VII Community College. In 2008 the school gained specialist status as Sports College and a Science College and was renamed King Edward VII Science and Sport College. In October 2012 it converted to academy status. [6]

Merger

In March 2020 King Edward VII Science and Sport College joined The Apollo Partnership Trust and formally merged with Castle Rock High School in September 2020. From then merged school was named The Castle Rock School. [7]

Academics

The Castle Rock School offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, [8] while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs. [9]

Notable former pupils

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John Pickett at the European Congress of Entomology at York in 2014

King Edward VII Grammar School

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.castlerocksch.uk/
  2. ↑ "About Us".
  3. ↑ BBC Genome
  4. ↑ In every Corner Sing
  5. ↑ Children's Hour
  6. ↑ "King Edward VII Specialist Science and Sport College - Welcome". Kinged.org.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "About Us".
  8. ↑ "King Edward VII Specialist Science and Sport College - Curriculum". Kinged.org.uk. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  9. ↑ "King Edward VII Specialist Science and Sport College - Post 16". Kinged.org.uk. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 19 January 2014.
  10. ↑ Tube Alloys
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