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The school was created on the site of the Mary Linwood Comprehensive School which closed in 1997. It opened in 2007 [1] under the co-sponsorship of the Church of England and businessman Sir David Samworth, [2] and incorporates a fully functioning church. [3] The school became part of the Tudor Grange Academies Trust in January 2016. [4]
They both developed it as a progressive "open school". [2] The school previously formed part of The South Leicestershire Learning Partnership, a multi-academy umbrella trust. [3] In March 2020 the school joined the LIFE Multi-Academy Trust and was renamed Countesthorpe Academy, and is now led by Executive Head Gareth Williams. [1]
The school was awarded Specialist school status for visual arts (in 2001), science and mathematics (in 2005), and vocational learning (in 2006). In 2016 they were awarded the World Class Schools Mark by OFSTED. Previously a community school administered by Leicester City Council, in March 2019 Sir Jonathan North College converted to academy ...
Charnwood College was the first time two upper schools had been merged in Leicestershire. Charnwood college inherited the supporters of the two former schools, the Burleigh Pig and the Garendon Stag. The Burleigh Pig became an unofficial supporter and eventually became seen as an official supporter after the installation of a statue of a bronze ...
In 2003, the school became a Specialist Sports College and as a result enabled Market Bosworth High School and Winstanley Community College to follow suit. This was followed in 2011, with the school becoming a Trust School in partnership with Leicester University, Leicester City Football Club, Stephenson College, the Primary Care Trust ...
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In 1947 the grammar school closed and a secondary modern school was opened on the same site. In 1956 this became a single bilateral school, with approximately 500 pupils.. Dunn became headmaster in 1960, and discussions began about whether Humphrey Perkins or the nearby Rawlins Grammar School at Quorn would be the 'Upper School' in the new two-tier Leicestershire education mo