Established 1965 Religion Roman Catholic DfE number 830/5415 Motto Garde ta foi Gender Mixed-sex education | Type Academy Headteacher Mrs J. McCarthy Phone +44 115 932 2896 Founded 1965 | |
Location Abbot Road
Kirk Hallam
Derbyshire
DE7 4HX
England Address Abbot Rd, Ilkeston DE7 4HX, UK Similar Kirk Hallam Community Academy, Trinity Catholic School, St Benedict Catholic Volunteer, Friesland School, The Long Eaton School Profiles | ||
St john houghton catholic voluntary academy top 8 facts
St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy (commonly known as Saint John Houghton) (formerly St John Houghton Catholic School) is a mixed Roman Catholic secondary school located in Kirk Hallam (near Ilkeston) in the English county of Derbyshire. The school is named after Saint John Houghton, a Carthusian hermit and Catholic priest who was the first English Catholic martyr to die as a result of the Act of Supremacy by King Henry VIII of England.
It was established as a voluntary aided school in January 1965 called The Blessed John Houghton Catholic School. The school was converted to academy status on 1 March 2012 and was renamed St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy. The school is now administered as part of the St Robert Lawrence Catholic Academy Trust, which also includes two nearby primary schools. The St Robert Lawrence Catholic Academy Trust is overseen by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham.
St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy offers GCSEs and OCR Nationals as programmes of study for pupils. The school gained specialist status as a Science College in 2005, and continues to specialise in science.