Keswick School

Coordinates: 54°36′28″N 3°08′48″W / 54.6079°N 3.1467°W / 54.6079; -3.1467
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Keswick School
Address
Map
Vicarage Hill

, ,
CA12 5QB

England
Coordinates54°36′28″N 3°08′48″W / 54.6079°N 3.1467°W / 54.6079; -3.1467
Information
TypeAcademy
Motto"Levavi Oculos" "(I Lift Up My Eyes)"
EstablishedMid 14th-century [citation needed]
Local authorityCumberland Council
Department for Education URN136902 Tables
OfstedReports
Head teacherSimon Jackson
GenderMixed
Age11 to 18
Enrolment1360
HousesWordsworth, Southey, Coleridge, Rawnsley
Colour(s)Bottle green and maroon
Websitewww.keswick.cumbria.sch.uk

Keswick School is a coeducational 11–18 academy in Cumbria, UK with 1360 pupils on roll. There are 309 students in the sixth form and 40 boarders.[1]

The school is the successor of the former voluntary aided grammar school of Keswick, founded at the latest by 1591.[2]

The symbols on the schools crest are a reference to the miracles of Saint Mungo.[citation needed]. When the school was a Grammar School, it had a school song in Latin which began "Assurgit Skidda stabilis / Mons nunquam non durabilis", referring to the nearby Skiddaw.

Two pupils of the school were killed on 24 May 2010 when a coach returning from a school trip was involved in a traffic collision on the A66 road.[3]

School performance and inspections[edit]

As of 2023, the school's most recent inspection by Ofsted was in 2014, with a judgement of Outstanding.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Keswick School - GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  2. ^ Cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk - Keswick: Schools
  3. ^ "Two pupils and man killed in Cumbria bus crash named". BBC News. 25 May 2010.
  4. ^ Ashdown, Ann (2014). "Keswick School". Ofsted. Retrieved 16 May 2023.

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