Type Academy DfE number 873/4000 Ofsted Reports Gender Mixed-sex education | Principal Clare Claxton DfE URN 137867 Tables Phone +44 1945 585237 | |
Location Corporation Road
Wisbech
Cambridgeshire
PE13 2SE
England Address Corporation Rd, Wisbech PE13 2SE, UK Similar Cottenham Village College, Bassingbourn Village College, College of West Anglia, Swavesey Village College, Sawston Village College Profiles | ||
Thomas clarkson academy
Thomas Clarkson Academy is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England.
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Originally the Queen's School, it was established following the merger of the secondary modern Queen's Girls' School and Queen's Boys' School in the 1970s. It was renamed Thomas Clarkson Community College in 2007 under the Fresh Start initiative following a poor Ofsted examination. It is named after Thomas Clarkson, the Wisbech-born abolitionist and leading campaigner against the slave trade in the British Empire.
The school was converted to academy status in June 2012 and was renamed Thomas Clarkson Academy. As an academy, the school is sponsored by Brooke Weston Trust. It offers a range of GCSEs and BTECs to pupils as courses of study. Sixth form have options to study a range of A Levels and BTECs. A new school building has been constructed that was designed by Ken Shuttleworth and MAKE Architects.