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Wadebridge 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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with academy status, located in the town of Wadebridge,
Cornwall Cornwall (; or ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is also one of the Celtic nations and the homeland of the Cornish people. The county is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, ...
, England. It has 1,235 pupils. The headteacher is Mr Mat Winzor. Facilities include gymnasium, tennis courts, football/rugby pitch, hockey pitch, basketball court, a squash court and heated swimming pool (part of Wadebridge Leisure Centre).


History

The school opened as Wadebridge Secondary Modern School in March 1957. The building was designed by F. K. Hicklin, county architect. In 2004, the school gained specialist business and enterprise college status. Wadebridge converted to academy status in April 2012. In 2020, the school closed its
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.


A-Level results

Although the school no longer has a sixth form, in 2006 the school came in second place behind Truro High School in the league tables for the average A-level points score per student in Cornwall. This meant that Wadebridge School beat the independent and selective Truro School into third place, a feat that was achieved again in 2008.


Ofsted inspections

As of 2021, the school's most recent inspection by
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was in 2019, with a judgement of Good.


Notable former pupils

* Olly Barkley, England rugby international * Michaela Breeze, weightlifting Commonwealth champion * Jago, children's book illustrator * Calum Jarvis, swimming Commonwealth bronze medallist, Olympic Gold 2020(2021) * Tristan Stephenson, mixologist and bartender * Annabel Vernon, World Champion GB rower


References


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* Secondary schools in Cornwall Educational institutions established in 1957 Academies in Cornwall 1957 establishments in England Wadebridge {{Cornwall-school-stub