Cantell School is a secondary comprehensive school in
Bassett, Southampton
Bassett is a suburb and electoral ward of the City of Southampton, England. The suburb lies to the north of the city centre and is largely residential, including the University of Southampton's Glen Eyre Halls of residence complex (including C ...
. In 2013,
Ofsted judged Cantell to be a 'Good' school.
History
The school occupies the site that was previously home to Glen Eyre School. Cantell was formed as an amalgamation of
Hampton Park Secondary School and
Glen Eyre Secondary School
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. In 1988 the school occupied an area of some 4 hectares (9.9 acres) and it was proposed that 0.1 hectares (0.25 acres) of this be sold off for housing.
The School gained specialist status for
Mathematics and
Information and Communication Technology
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, in September 2003 and was known as Cantell Mathematics and Computing College until 2013, when the school returned to the original name of Cantell School.
Cantell Secondary received an Ofsted inspection in Autumn 2004 and was put into the ''special measures'' category because it was failing to give its students an acceptable standard of education. As a result, it received visits from
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education
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to inspect its progress. The school came out of special measures after the June 2006 inspection.
Present
The school achieved improvements in Ofsted judgements, and in 2013, achieved its best ever GCSE results (69% 5A*-C including English and Maths), and topped the City league tables for students' progress (Value Added). In the same year the school was judged Good.
In January 2006 there were 1,177 students at Cantell (532 boys and 645 girls), below the full capacity of 1,300.
Cantell is home to a diverse community and offers over 60 different clubs and societies. It is also one of the only schools in Hampshire to offer Latin as part of the timetable.
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Facilities
The main school building was completed in 2003 at the cost of £15 million , replacing the previous East and West buildings which were constructed in the 1940s, and which were in a state of disrepair. The school's sports hall along with a small electricity sub-station were the only parts of the old school to survive the rebuild.
Notable former pupils
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Will Champion
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, drummer for
Coldplay
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* Joe Jerome Newman, lead singer of
alt-J and amateur boxer
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Wade Elliott, footballer
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Sam Hoskins, footballer
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Louisa Rose Allen, singer and songwriter
References
External links
The school's websiteThe school on Ofsted's website
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Secondary schools in Southampton
Foundation schools in Southampton