Established 1987 Religion Roman Catholic Headteacher Mr C. Mathew Number of students 1,544 Gender Mixed-sex education | Type Academy DfE URN 137895 Tables Phone +44 1438 314643 Founded 1987 | |
Founder Archdiocese of Westminster Location Hitchin Road
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
SG1 4AE
England Address Hitchin Rd, Stevenage SG1 4AE, UK Motto Cor ad cor loquitur (in English this means "Heart speaks unto heart") Similar The Nobel School, Barnwell Upper School, Marriotts School, The Barclay School A, Hitchin Girls' School Profiles | ||
The John Henry Newman School is a Roman Catholic secondary school with academy status at Stevenage in Hertfordshire, England. In its 2015 Ofsted inspection it was classed as a good school and the diocesan report found it to be an outstanding Catholic school. It converted to academy status on 1 March 2012.
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Form 3d in the drama studio at the john henry newman school in stevenage
Hitchin
St. Michael's College was established in Grove Road, Hitchin—next to the site of a new Catholic church—in 1903 by Fr. A. Prével of the Society of Saint Edmund. In 1925, the priests from the Order of Augustinians of the Assumption assumed control of both the church and the college. St. Michael's College was a Catholic boys' school which housed a number of boarding pupils. In 1953, following a General Inspection, the College was granted temporary recognition as an independent grammar school and this status was made permanent in 1958.
Stevenage
The expansion of Stevenage New Town, during the 1960s, led to the relocation of the school to Sandown Road, Stevenage, in 1968. It changed its name to St. Michael's School and became a comprehensive.
In 1985, the process of merging St. Michael's School with St. Angela's School for Girls began. The merging process was completed in 1987 and the site of St. Michael's was sold, while the new "John Henry Newman School" moved to the former site of St. Angela's on Hitchin Road. The name of the school commemorates Cardinal John Henry Newman.