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St Paul's College, Sunbury-on-Thames

, Sunbury-on-Thames, United Kingdom
Elementary School

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St Paul's Catholic College is a Roman Catholic comprehensive secondary school and sixth form college in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, England. St Paul's is a 1987 amalgamation of Cardinal Godfrey Boys' School and St Theresa's Girls' School both established in the early 20th century. The College is a specialist Technology College and an International School.In performance, the secondary school has exceeded national average GSCE results since 2011.Technology CollegeThe Department for Education under successive governments have endorsed the school's designation as a Technology College. Technology College status reflects the enhanced opportunities in various sectors of these studies.These opportunities arise in various types of applied Design and Technology, or enabled within the theoretical and skill-based studies of the sciences (including mathematics) and the arts. These opportunities, together with the annual adoption of educational innovations, form the cornerstone of the ethos of the school.In furtherance of its specialisation this school has offered the option of studying an Engineering Diploma course to its pupils since September 2008.PerformanceThe school in 2007-08 achieved an improvement in the proportion of five good A*-C passes of over 20%. Ceri Bacon was appointed to be the Headteacher in 2011 and at the close of that academic year presided over a 94.6% pass rate of five A*-Cs at GSCE level.

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