Ken Stimpson Academy


Ken Stimpson Academy is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form in Peterborough in the English county of Cambridgeshire. The school is a Business & Enterprise specialist school.

History

Ken Stimpson Academy was founded as Ken Stimpson Community School in 1982, it was a tribute to Kenneth. W. Stimpson who was the Senior Area Education Officer between 1974 and 1979. The school closed as a Community School in August 2023 and reopened as Ken Stimpson Academy as part of the Four Cs multi-academy trust in September 2023.

Expansion

In September 2018, the local council approved plans for the school to build a new two-storey teaching block and to expand some of the existing structures to accommodate a planned rise in capacity from 1014 pupils to 1650 pupils.

Community

Ken Stimpson Academy shares its site with a sports centre and is home to the Werrington Library.

Subjects

The subjects that are taught at Ken Stimpson are:
  • Art
  • Business & Enterprise
  • Careers
  • Computing
  • Design And Technology
  • English
  • Humanities
  • Modern Foreign Languages
  • Mathematics
  • Physical Education
  • Performing Arts
  • Science

E-Safety Mark

In June 2015, Ken Stimpson received the 360 Degree Safe E-Safety mark by the South West Grid for Learning and was the first school in Peterborough to get this certification. According to the Accreditation 360 Degree Safe website, this demonstrates that the school shows good practice in their e-safety policies and procedures.

Ofsted Inspection

The school's latest Ofsted inspection result was Requires Improvement.