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Wigston College

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Established
  
1954

Principal
  
Mike Wilson

DfE number
  
855/4033

Type
  
Academy

Executive Headteacher
  
Mark Mitchely

Location
  
Station Road Wigston Magna Leicestershire LE18 2DS England

Wigston College is a coeducational upper school and sixth form located in Wigston Magna in the English county of Leicestershire. The college forms part of the Wigston Academies Trust, together with neighbouring Wigston Academy.

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It was established as Guthlaxton Grammar School in 1954. The school became Guthlaxton College after comprehensive education was introduced to Leicestershire. The name Guthlaxton came from the Guthlaxton hundred of Leicestershire. In September 2015 the school changed its name to Wigston College to reflect the merger of neighbouring Bushloe High School and Abington Academy into Wigston Academy, a sister school on the same site and part of the same academy trust. In 2016 Wigston Academy took over responsibility for delivering 14-16 education and Wigston College became solely a sixth form, with the final cohort of Year 11 students to study at Wigston College due to leave in 2017.

Wigston College offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs. The school specialises in performing arts and has dedicated facilities to support the specialism.

Headteachers

  • Mr Martin J. Olivier 1954 -
  • Mr Cyril Harris
  • Mr Graham Norris 1981 - 1995
  • Mr Michael Fields 1995 - 2008
  • Mr John Keller 2008 - 2014
  • Miss Sally Cox 2014 - 2016
  • Mr Michael Wilson 2016 -
  • Guthlaxton Grammar School

  • Adrian Juste, disc jockey and radio presenter
  • Guthlaxton College

  • Brett Deacon, rugby union player
  • Harry Panayiotou, Footballer who currently plays for Leicester City
  • References

    Wigston College Wikipedia