| Northgate High School | |
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| Location | |
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Cemetery Road ,, NR19 2EU | |
| Coordinates | 52°41′18″N0°56′41″E / 52.6882°N 0.9448°E /52.6882; 0.9448 |
| Information | |
| Type | Academy |
| Trust | Unity Education Trust |
| Department for Education URN | 141268Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Chair of Governors | Karen Thompson |
| Headteachers | Zoe Galley and Duncan Hone |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Age | 11 to 16 |
| Enrollment | 1,129 |
| Capacity | 1,280 |
| Website | http://www.northgate.norfolk.sch.uk/ |
Northgate High School, formerlyNorthgate High School and Dereham Sixth Form College, is anacademy situated inDereham,Norfolk, England. It is a co-educationalcomprehensive school, for ages 11–18.[1] It is one of two high schools in the town.
The school converted toacademy status in September 2014. In October 2016 Northgate announced its intention to form a Multi-Academy Trust, called the Unity Academy Trust.[2]The Unity Academy Trust name was already in use elsewhere, therefore the trust was launched as the Unity Education Trust on 1 March 2017, comprising the following five establishments:[3]
Virtually all maintained schools and academies follow theNational Curriculum, and are inspected by Ofsted on how well they succeed in delivering a 'broad and balanced curriculum'.[4] The school has to decide whetherKey Stage 3 contains years 7, 8 and 9- or whether year 9 should be inKey Stage 4 and the students just study subjects that will be examined by theGCSE exams at 16. Northgate High School has a three-year Key Stage 3 but pupils start their Key Stage 4 options at the Easter of Year 9.[5]
Dereham Sixth Form College is a post-16sixth form centre in theNorfolk town ofDereham,England. The centre is operated byNorthgate High School, offering AS level, BTEC andA level courses.From 1977 to 2016 the college was jointly managed and governed by the two high schools in Dereham,Neatherd and Northgate. Teaching was divided equally between both schools. Northgate High School was awarded the college in July 2016 by Norfolk County Council following the declaration in February 2016 by the governing body of Dereham Neatherd High School that it desired to set up its own sixth form. Later, in the same month, Northgate announced that it was setting up a Multi Academy Trust with Dereham Sixth Form College.[2]
Most teaching is carried out within the college site, with some classes taught at Northgate. Students at the college are on the roll of Northgate High School, and the results of the college are claimed by Northgate.
