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Cotham School

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Established
  
1856

Headteacher
  
Joanne Butler

DfE URN
  
137440 Tables

Founded
  
1856

Gender
  
Mixed-sex education

Type
  
Secondary Academy

DfE number
  
801/4100

Phone
  
+44 117 919 8000

Capacity
  
1,480

Location
  
Cotham Lawn RoadBristolBS6 6DTEngland

Address
  
Cotham Lawn Rd, Cotham, Bristol BS6 6DT, UK

Similar
  
Redland Green School, North Bristol Post 16 Centre, Bristol Grammar School, St Mary Redcliffe & Temple C, Colston's Girls' School

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Cotham School is a secondary school with co-operative academy status in Cotham, a suburb of Bristol, England. The catchment area for this school is Cotham, Clifton, Kingsdown and southern Redland.

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History

Cotham school was established in 1856. Its predecessor was the Merchant Venturers School. Until the academic year 2000/01, Cotham was a grammar school. It became a comprehensive in 2001, and became an academy in September 2011.

The BBC drama Thirteen was filmed here in 2015.

Admissions

It comprises the main school and sports hall together with Charnwood House, the Cotham part of the North Bristol Post 16 Centre, which was refurbished and opened in 2007. Prior to 2007, Cotham School had its own sixth form.

Notable alumni

  • Wallace Fox, Professor of Community Therapeutics from 1979-86 at the Cardiothoracic Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital; did important work on tuberculosis
  • David Garmston, journalist
  • Peter Higgs, Professor of Theoretical Physics from 1980-96 at the University of Edinburgh, known for the Higgs boson; won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Francois Englert
  • Martyn Jarrett, Bishop of Beverley since 2000; Bishop of Burnley from 1994–2000
  • Arthur Milton, cricketer
  • Derek Robinson, novelist
  • John Saxbee, Bishop of Lincoln since 2001; Bishop of Ludlow from 1994–2001
  • John Tidmarsh, journalist
  • Amy Willerton, contestant on I'm a Celebrity 2013 and contestant in Miss Universe
  • Paul Dirac, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1932-69 at the University of Cambridge, who won the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics with Erwin Schrödinger for work on quantum mechanics.

    • References

    Cotham School Wikipedia
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