Established 1588 Headteacher Mr Gordon Farquhar DfE URN 138734 Tables Number of students 987 Founded 1588 | Type Academy DfE number 881/5436 Phone +44 1799 540237 Founder Jocosa Frankland Gender Mixed-sex education | |
Location Bury Water Lane
Newport
Essex
CB11 3TR
England Address Newport, Saffron Walden CB11 3TR, UK Similar Saffron Walden County Hi, Hertfords and Essex High Sch, Hockerill Anglo‑Eu College, Forest Hall School, Saint Mary's Catholic Profiles | ||
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Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport, formerly Newport Free Grammar School, is a school in Newport, Essex, England. It was founded in 1588. The school is a mixed secondary school with a sixth form. It previously existed in different forms including a boarding school and a grammar school. The Headteacher is Mr Gordon Farquhar and the Deputy headteachers are Kay Turner, Matthew Gibson and Mike Hodgkiss. As of 2012, there were 987 students, including 160 in the sixth form.
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Specialist and academy status
The school achieved Specialist Language College status in July 2003 from DfES and has been a Language College since September 2003. The school achieved a second specialism in Science, commencing 1 September 2008 but this was later lost.
The school converted to academy status on 1 September 2012.
Academic standards
A-Level results
In 2011 NFGS was ranked 405th out of the 429 institutions supplying A-Level results to the Telegraph league table, based on A-Level A*, A and B grade %ages.
Following their inspection on 15 March 2006, Ofsted rated the school as good, Grade 2 on a four-point scale. They said:
"Newport Free Grammar is a good school which provides good value for money. The acquisition of language college status has had a big impact on standards and quality. Much of the teaching is good though it needs improving in mathematics and information and communication technology (ICT). In subjects such as languages and humanities, teaching is sometimes outstanding, even inspirational. The school demonstrates that it has good capacity to maintain high standards where they exist and to use these as exemplars of good practice and thus further improve overall."