County Upper School
Bury St Edmunds County Upper School is a 13 to 18 co-educational comprehensive high-performing academy part of the Bury St Edmunds Academy Trust comprising County Upper School, Horringer Court Middle School and Westley Middle School. It is one of three 13-18 schools serving the town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England and its surrounding villages. Pupils enter Year 9 primarily from three catchment Middle Schools in Bury St Edmunds but students are drawn widely from across the villages and towns of West Suffolk particularly Newmarket and Mildenhall. The school is regularly over-subscribed with 266 first-choice applicants in 2009/10, 287 in 2010/11, 282 for 2011/12 and 279 for 2012/13 against a LEA Planned Admission Number of 260. In September 2011 the number of students on roll was 1,039 and it is expected that will remain relatively unchanged for the foreseeable future. Attached to the main school is a Sixth Form, which at present stands at around 260 students spread between Years 12 and 13 an increase of 40 on 2010-11. The school is located on Beetons Way, on the outskirts of town, next to St Benedict's Roman Catholic Upper School, which has close links with the County Upper Sixth Form.
County Upper School is designated a High Performing Specialist Science and Language College with a Gifted and Talented Focus, and is also accredited as a "Consultant School" by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
It is also the lead Suffolk school in the Suffolk and Norfolk Initial Teacher Training (SNITT) initiative, in partnership with Suffolk County Council and University College Suffolk, which is part of the Department for Education's School Direct Training Programme.
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