Churchill Academy and Sixth Form

Churchill Academy & Sixth Form
Address
Churchill Green Churchill , North Somerset England
Coordinates	51°20′13″N 2°48′43″W / 51.3369°N 2.8119°W / 51.3369; -2.8119
Information
Type	Academy
Motto	Kindness, Curiosity, Determination
Established	1956
Department for Education URN	137000 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Chris Hildrew
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1,474 as of 2015[1]
Website	http://www.churchill-academy.org/

Churchill Academy and Sixth Form, previously known as Churchill Community Foundation School and Sixth Form Centre, is an academy famously situated in the South West of England, in the village of Churchill, North Somerset, England, surrounded by countryside and overlooked by the Mendip Hills. It educates students from ages 11 to 18 and offers General Certificate of Secondary Education, A-levels and BTEC courses. In 2002, the school was granted specialist Arts College status. In August 2011, the school became an academy.

The current headteacher is Chris Hildrew, who has held this position since the beginning of 2016; Dr Barry Wratten retired in 2015 after being at the helm of the school for 13 years (since 2002). The school was rated 'Outstanding' in its 2015 Ofsted Report.^[2]

The school, which had 1,519 students as of 2019,^[1] is organised by house system, with the houses named after royal dynasties of Britain: Stuart (green), Hanover (gold), Tudor (red) and Windsor (blue). A fifth house, Lancaster (purple), was introduced in 2020.^[3]

Churchill celebrated its diamond jubilee in 2017.^[4] A new Computing and Business Studies block, named the Alan Turing Building, was built and completed in 2017. Funding was also received in 2017 to build a new Science and Technology block^[5] to replace the original 1956 building known as "Tudor Block." The new building was named the Dame Athene Donald Building following a student competition.^[6]