Academic Subjects and Achievements
In 2011, 86% of the school's students achieved a GCSE equivalent pass rate of five or more A to C grades. This is the best result in the school's history. The school has been acknowledged by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust as one of the country's most improved schools.
The school holds the ICT mark, the Eco Silver Award, the Geography Quality Mark and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust’s Cultural Diversity Quality Standard Gold Award.
The school offers French and Spanish on the Modern Foreign Languages programme. It offers Food Technology, Resistant Materials, Graphic Design and Textiles as Design Technology options. It also offers a variety of BTEC course subjects to 14-16 year olds as well as the usual GCSE programme.
The school has firm links with most Further and Higher Education establishments in The Fylde.
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