Type Academy DfE URN 135621 Tables Ages 11–18 | DfE number 909/6906 Ofsted Reports Phone +44 1228 822060 Gender Mixed-sex education | |
Location Victoria Place
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA1 1LY
England Address Victoria Pl, Carlisle CA1 1LY, UK Profiles | ||
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Richard Rose Central Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status. It is located in Carlisle in the English county of Cumbria.
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Grammar school
The school traces its roots to Carlisle & County High School for Girls (CCHS), which opened at 19 Castle Street in January 1884 for 36 girls. The site is now the Bookcase Antiquarian Bookshop. The school was a girls' grammar school. In 1909 a new site was built at Lismore Place for Carlisle High School. The school had houses of Netherby, Greystoke, Lanercost and Linstock.
In 1904 the school was transferred to Cumberland County Council and later became St Aidan's County High School, a co-educational comprehensive school. The school was a girls' grammar school for 86 years until 1970.
Academy
In September 2009 St Aidan's County High School and the North Cumbria Technology College (formerly Harraby School) merged to form Richard Rose Central Academy. The school was subsequently rebuilt on the former St Aidan's site in 2010, costing £31m. The academy was first sponsored by Eddie Stobart owner Andrew Tinkler and local businessman Brian Scowcroft.
Protests
In January 2009, there were protests by parents and pupils regarding poor quality education and school facilities. The school was found to be inadequate by Ofsted and was placed in special measures, with the headmaster and chief executive being immediately replaced.
Positive Response
Sponsored by the United Learning Multi Academy Trust since Sept 2014, the Academy has gone from strength to strength and has once again posted an improving set of results for GCSE's and in the sixth form. Under new leadership and management the Academy is now rated as Requires Improvement by Ofsted and is one of the most rapidly improving schools in the County in terms of the new government measure of Progress 8.
Improvements have been attributed to a strong stance on expectations and behaviour and the move towards disruption free teaching.
Federation
Since September 2014 Richard Rose Central Academy is sponsored by United Learning. The school is in a federation with Richard Rose Morton Academy and the schools share a sixth form. The sixth form offers students the option to study from a range of A-levels, BTECs and vocational courses as programmes of study.