Type Academy DfE number 860/4713 Address Newcastle ST5 2SJ, UK Phone +44 1782 615636 | Religion Roman Catholic DfE URN 140802 Tables Gender Mixed-sex education | |
Location Ashfields New Road
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire
ST5 2SJ
England Ofsted Reports Pre-academy reports | ||
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St John Fisher Catholic College is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Newcastle-under-Lyme in the English county of Staffordshire. The school is named after Saint John Fisher, a Roman Catholic bishop and theologian who was executed by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation The school was originally named after the Blessed Thomas Maxfield and changed to St John Fisher in 1980. It has a reputation of being one of the best and heavily over subscribed schools in the area.
Previously a voluntary aided school administered by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham and Staffordshire County Council, St John Fisher Catholic College converted to academy status in April 2014. The school is now part of Christ the King Catholic Collegiate Trust, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Birmingham.
St John Fisher Catholic College offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and BTECs. The sixth form provision is offered as the Trinity Sixth Form, a collaboration between St John Fisher Catholic College, St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy, St Thomas More Catholic Academy and University Academy Kidsgrove.