Education
There are several privately run nurseries for pre-school age children in Sleaford, including New Life Pre-School, Redcroft Day Nursery, Woodside Children's Nursery, Happy Day Nursery and Sleaford Day Nursery.
Prior to 1999, the infant and junior schools were separate. Today there are four primary schools; Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Primary School (RC), the William Alvey Church of England School, St Botolph's Church of England Primary School and Church Lane Primary School & Nursery.
The town has three secondary schools. Carre's Grammar School (male selective secondary school), Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy (female selective secondary school) and St George's Academy, formerly St. George's College of Technology (mixed secondary school). The schools operated a joint co-educational Joint Sixth Form consortium for 27 years, until April 2010 when the high school withdrew. At the beginning of the academic year 2010/2011, there were 776 pupils in the Joint Sixth Form.
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