Richard Rose Central Academy

Richard Rose Central Academy
Type	Academy
Location	Victoria Place Carlisle Cumbria CA1 1LY England Coordinates: 54°53′43″N 2°55′26″W / 54.89535°N 2.92391°W / 54.89535; -2.92391
Local authority	Cumbria County Council
DfE number	909/6906
DfE URN	135621 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Gender	Coeducational
Ages	11–18
Website	School website

Richard Rose Central Academy is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status. It is located in Carlisle in the English county of Cumbria.^[1]

History

Grammar school

The school traces its roots to Carlisle & County High School for Girls (CCHS), which opened at 19 Castle Street in January 1884 for 36 girls. The site is now the Bookcase Antiquarian Bookshop. The school was a girls' grammar school. In 1909 a new site was built at Lismore Place for Carlisle High School. The school had houses of Netherby, Greystoke, Lanercost and Linstock.

In 1904 the school was transferred to Cumberland County Council and later became St Aidan's County High School, a co-educational comprehensive school. The school was a girls' grammar school for 86 years until 1970.

Academy

In September 2009 St Aidan's County High School and the North Cumbria Technology College (formerly Harraby School) merged to form Richard Rose Central Academy. The school was subsequently rebuilt on the former St Aidan's site in 2010, costing £31m. The academy was first sponsored by Eddie Stobart owner Andrew Tinkler and local businessman Brian Scowcroft.

Protests

In January 2009, there were protests by parents and pupils regarding poor quality education and school facilities. The school was found to be inadequate by Ofsted and was placed in special measures,^[2] with the headmaster and chief executive being immediately replaced.^[3]

Positive Response

Sponsored by the United Learning Multi Academy Trust since Sept 2014, the Academy has gone from strength to strength and has once again posted an improving set of results for GCSE's and in the sixth form. Under new leadership and management the Academy is now rated as Requires Improvement ^[4] by Ofsted and is one of the most rapidly improving schools in the County in terms of the new government measure of Progress 8.

Improvements have been attributed to a strong stance on expectations and behaviour and the move towards disruption free teaching.

Federation

Since September 2014 Richard Rose Central Academy is sponsored by United Learning. The school is in a federation with Richard Rose Morton Academy and the schools share a sixth form.^[5] The sixth form offers students the option to study from a range of A-levels, BTECs and vocational courses as programmes of study.

Notable former pupils

Carlisle & County High School for Girls

Margaret Forster, author
Jancis Robinson OBE (head girl), wine critic

References

↑ http://www.rrca.org.uk/
↑ "Ofsted inspection report, Richard Rose Central Academy" (PDF). Retrieved 3/11/14. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ "Richard Rose Central Academy: Press Release". Retrieved 3/11/14. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
↑ http://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/135621
↑ http://rrsfc.unitedlearningcms.org.uk/

External links

Schools in Cumbria

Primary	Chetwynde School Holme St Cuthbert School Stanwix School

Secondary	Appleby Grammar School Caldew School Cartmel Priory School Chetwynde School Cockermouth School Dallam School Dowdales School Energy Coast UTC Furness Academy John Ruskin School Keswick School Kirkbie Kendal School Kirkby Stephen Grammar School The Lakes School Millom School Nelson Thomlinson School Newman Catholic School Queen Elizabeth School Queen Katherine School Richard Rose Central Academy Richard Rose Morton Academy St Bernard's Catholic High School St Benedict's Catholic High School Samuel King's School Settlebeck School Solway Community Technology College Trinity School Ullswater Community College Ulverston Victoria High School Walney School West Lakes Academy The Whitehaven Academy William Howard School Workington Academy

Grammar	Queen Elizabeth Grammar School

Special	Eden Grove School Witherslack Hall School

Independent	Austin Friars St Monica's School Sedbergh School Windermere School

Sixth form & FE colleges	Barrow Sixth Form College Furness College Kendal College Lakes College

Defunct	Barrow-in-Furness Grammar Schools Barrow-in-Furness Higher Grade School Casterton School Barrow-in-Furness Technical School Hawkshead Grammar School John Whinnerah Institute Parkview School St Bees School Salterbeck School Southfield Technology College Urswick Grammar School Wigton School Workington School

United Learning schools

Academies	Accrington Academy Barnsley Academy Carter Community School Goresbrook School Hurlingham and Chelsea Secondary School John Smeaton Academy Kettering Buccleuch Academy Lambeth Academy Manchester Academy Midhurst Rother College North Oxfordshire Academy Northampton Academy Nova Hreod Academy Paddington Academy Richard Rose Central Academy Richard Rose Morton Academy Salford City Academy Seahaven Academy Sheffield Park Academy Sheffield Springs Academy Shoreham Academy Stockport Academy Swindon Academy The Regis School Walthamstow Academy William Hulme's Grammar School Wye School

Emmanuel Schools	Bede Academy Emmanuel College The King's Academy Trinity Academy

Independent schools	Arnold KEQMS Ashford School Bournemouth Collegiate School Caterham School Guildford High School Hampshire Collegiate School Hull Collegiate School Lincoln Minster School Sunderland High School Surbiton High School

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