Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Voluntary Academy is a

co-educational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...

secondary school located in the

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area of

Burton upon Trent Burton upon Trent, also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton, is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire, England, close to the border with Derbyshire. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 censu ...

in the

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. The school is named after

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, a 16th Century

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and

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who was born in Burton upon Trent.

History

Established in 1964 as Robert Sutton Catholic High School, it was a

voluntary aided A voluntary aided school (VA school) is a state-funded school in England and Wales in which a foundation or trust (usually a religious organisation) contributes to building costs and has a substantial influence in the running of the school. In m ...

Catholic school Catholic schools are Parochial school, parochial pre-primary, primary and secondary educational institutions administered in association with the Catholic Church. , the Catholic Church operates the world's largest parochial schools, religious, no ...

administered by

Staffordshire County Council Staffordshire County Council is the upper-tier Local government in England, local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Staffordshire, England. The non-metropolitan county is smaller than the ceremonial county, which additionally includ ...

and the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham The Diocese of Nottingham () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic church in England and a suffragan of the Metropolitan Diocese of Westminster. The diocese covers an area of , taking in the English counties of Nottinghamshire (now exclu ...

. The school gained specialist status as a

Sports College Sports Colleges are senior secondary schools which promote sports alongside secondary education. United Kingdom Sports Colleges were introduced in 1997 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. The programme enabled sec ...

in 2005 and was renamed Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Sports College. In September 2018 it converted to an

academy An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

and become part of the St Ralph Sherwin Catholic Multi Academy Trust.

Description

Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Voluntary Academy offers

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and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

A-level The A-level (Advanced Level) is a subject-based qualification conferred as part of the General Certificate of Education, as well as a school leaving qualification offered by the educational bodies in the United Kingdom and the educational ...

s and further BTECs. The school previously shared a sixth form provision with the neighbouring Paulet High School, however from 2015 through 2020, Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Sports College offered its own separate sixth form provision.

Sixth form

The school offered a

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program up until 2019. At that time, citing financial issues, the school's head teacher announced the closure of the Sixth Form program, ceasing to accept new students after September 2019, and closing the program completely after August 2020.

Notable former pupils

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, DJ

References

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External links

Blessed Robert Sutton Catholic Voluntary Academy official website
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