- Source: List of schools in Sleaford
Sleaford is a market town and civil parish in the North Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is the largest settlement in North Kesteven with a population of 19,807 in 2021. The town has four state primary schools, three state secondary schools and one independent special school as of 2024. It retains a selective system for its secondary schooling, with the town's two single-sex grammar schools requiring pupils to pass the eleven-plus exam before enrolment.
Primary
Sleaford has four state primary schools:
Other elementary schools have existed historically. In 1835, there were eight-day schools and three Sunday schools in New Sleaford and two daily schools in Old Sleaford. An infant school in the old playhouse on Westgate opened in c. 1855 but had closed by the early 1950s. Wesleyan schools attached to the chapel on North Street accommodated up to 200 pupils in the 1870s, but closed when the Council School opened in 1908 (the pupils and staff being transferred there). In addition to various small private girls' schools, short-lived private schools for boys were established by Mr Herring and Charles Boyer in 1851, Henry Carruthers in the late 19th century, and Edwin Reginald Dibben in 1870 in competition with the grammar school.
Secondary
The town has three secondary schools with sixth forms: a boys' grammar school, a girls' grammar school, and a mixed non-selective secondary school. The grammar schools are selective and pupils are required to pass the Eleven plus exam. The other school is not selective. The co-educational Sleaford Joint Sixth Form consortium allows pupils to choose subjects taught at all three schools.
Other
As of 2024, Sleaford has one independent special school: Holton Sleaford Independent School, which opened in 2021; since 2022 it has been based at Westgate House. It caters for pupils with "social, emotional, and mental health difficulties". At its latest Ofsted inspection in 2022 it was rated "good".
Sleaford also had adult education programmes Having been run on informal lines for four years prior, in 1879 an art school was formally established in Duke Street in connection with the Science and Art Department; it ran until c. 1918. There was also the Sydney House School, a private art school operating from c. 1891 to c. 1918. A branch of the Workers' Educational Association had been established by the town by 1931 and produced a book on the town's history in 1981. The town's University of the Third Age branch was set up in 2003.
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References
= Bibliography
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Edmonds, Kate; Venn, Elizabeth (1977), A School Remembers: Kesteven and Sleaford High School 1902–1977, Sleaford: Kesteven and Sleaford High School, OCLC 872093985
Ellis, Charles W. R. (1954), Carre's Grammar School: 1604–1954, Sleaford: W. K. Morton & Sons, OCLC 40597553
Ellis, Charles, ed. (1981a), Mid-Victorian Sleaford, 1851–1871, Lincolnshire History, vol. 4, Lincoln: Lincolnshire Library Service, ISBN 978-0-86111-102-2
HM Inspectors of Schools (1949). Report by HM Inspectors on Sleaford County Secondary School, Lincs. (Kesteven). London: Ministry for Education.
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Sleaford Gallery Arts Trust (2024). "A Brief History of Sleaford Art Schools" (PDF). Sleaford: Sleaford Gallery Arts Trust. Retrieved 15 June 2024.
St George's Academy (2024), St George's Academy: Admissions Policy, 2024–2025 (PDF), Sleaford: St George's Academy
Taylor, Cyril (2009), A Good School for Every Child: How to Improve Our Schools, London: Taylor and Francis, ISBN 978-1-134-01599-3
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