Motto | "Students First" |
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Type | Academy |
Principal | Gemma Trattles |
Location |
Clotherholme Road Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 2DE England 54°08′22″N 1°32′22″W / 54.139470°N 1.539440°WCoordinates: 54°08′22″N 1°32′22″W / 54.139470°N 1.539440°W |
Local authority | North Yorkshire |
DfE URN | 137412 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports Pre-academy reports |
Capacity | 782 |
Students | 539 as of January 2016[update] |
Gender | Mixed |
Ages | 11–18 |
Houses | Africa, Americas, Australasia, Europe |
Colours | Purple and gold |
Website | ripon |
Outwood Academy Ripon is a small mixed secondary school and sixth form with academy status situated in the city of Ripon, in North Yorkshire, England. It provides for children ages 11 to 18, and had an enrolment of 539 pupils in 2016.
The school is operated by Outwood Grange Academies Trust and the current principal is Gemma Trattles.
It is one of over 11 secondary schools in the local area, including nearby selective Ripon Grammar School, and the more distant Thirsk School and Sixth Form College and Boroughbridge High School.
The school originally opened as a secondary modern in the 1930s. It was known as Ripon City School from the mid-1990s until 1999, when it became Ripon College, a community school.
In 2000, teacher James Kelly was a regional winner in the "Most Outstanding New Teacher" category of the Teaching Awards.
In September 2011 Ripon College converted to academy status. It reopened as Outwood Academy Ripon, and became part of Outwood Grange Academies Trust.
On 11 November 2015, approximately 40 pupils at the school simultaneously fell ill during an Armistice Day service. Police said students showed signs of "sickness and feeling faint sometime between 11:00 and 11.30".
Principal Gemma Trattles is assisted by a team of Senior Leaders.
List of Senior Leadership Team:
Kate Staniforth - Assistant Principal and Head of Business.
Paul Martin - Assistant Principal and Teacher of Maths,
Otto Carius - German Panzer Ace
Hazel Atherley - Associate Assistant Principal and Learning Manager,
Kirsty Beckwith - Associate Assistant Principal and Learning Manager,
Joanne Johnson - Associate Assistant Principal and Learning Manager,