The Sir John Colfox Academy (formerly the Sir John Colfox School, and until 1999 Colfox School) is a

coeducational 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 ...

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and

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located in

Bridport Bridport is a market town and civil parish in Dorset, England, inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the River Asker, Asker. Its origins are Anglo-Saxons, Saxon and it has a long history as a ...

in the

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Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

. Previously a community school administered by

Dorset County Council Dorset County Council was the county council of Dorset in England. It was created in 1889 and abolished in 2019. Throughout its existence, the council was based in Dorchester. Bournemouth and Poole were made independent from the county counci ...

, the Sir John Colfox School converted to academy status in May 2015 and was renamed the Sir John Colfox Academy. However, the school continues to coordinate with Dorset County Council for admissions. Admissions to the school includes pupils that usually attend Bridport Primary School, St Mary's CE Primary School, Burton Bradstock CE VC School, Loders CE VC Primary School, Powerstock CE VA Primary School, St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Symondsbury CE Primary School and Thorner's CE School. The Sir John Colfox School offers

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and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils. The Sir John Colfox School sixth form provision is offered in conjunction with

Beaminster School Beaminster School is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Beaminster in the English county of Dorset. It is a voluntary controlled Christian school administered by the Church of England Diocese of Salisbury and Dorset Co ...

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, and students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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and further BTECs.

References

External links

The Sir John Colfox Academy official website
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