Established 1574 (1574) Principal Mrs Nicola Cooper DfE URN 137262 Tables Motto Believe in You Founded 1574 Gender Mixed-sex education | Type Academy DfE number 394/4072 Phone +44 191 512 8960 Founder Bernard Gilpin | |
Location Dairy Lane
Houghton-le-Spring
Tyne and Wear
DH4 5BH
England Address Dairy Ln, Houghton le Spring DH4 5BH, UK Similar Biddick Academy, Farringdon Community Academy, Sandhill View Academy, Hetton School, Park View School Profiles | ||
Kepier School is a coeducational secondary school located in Houghton-le-Spring in the City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England.
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Kepier School offers GCSEs, BTECs and OCR Nationals as programmes of study for pupils. The school also operates a five-year football academy programme for gifted young players.
History
The school was built and endowed in 1574 by Bernard Gilpin, an influential clergyman who became known as the 'Apostle of the North' and was associated with Houghton-le-Spring.
The school has resided since 1990 in its current building, which was formerly the Sancroft School. It was built in 1974 though has had major renovations since it became Houghton Kepier School. The change of building was decided when Houghton-le-Spring Grammar, Shiney Row Comprehensive, Sancroft Comprehensive and Bernard Gilpin Comprehensive began a merger over the latter years of the 1980s.
On the merger, the schools were known as Houghton Kepier School, a name that lasted until 2007 when the school gained specialist Sports College status and was renamed Houghton Kepier Sports College. It became a foundation school in 2006 and converted to academy status in 2011. It wasn't until the incumbent headmistress Nicola Cooper joined the school in 2011 that further changes to the historic logo and name were made and introduced for the autumn term in 2012.
The original Royal Kepier Grammar School still stands off Church Street, though the building used until 1990 is now demolished. In 2015, the school announced it was to demolish its current building and build a state-of-the-art three-storey academy on a disused sports field.