The Ridgeway School

The Ridgeway School and Sixth Form College’s journey has been to create a school where enjoyment and great learning are found side by side for both students and staff alike. In 2012 Ofsted stated that the school was ‘a very friendly and pleasant place to be and that students felt very safe and well supported by staff’. In addition, ‘that students achieved well, gaining better-than-average GCSE results’. Our aim is to develop confident, mature, and engaging young people who believe in themselves… becoming delightful, personable and capable young men and women.

We want all of our students to develop a thirst for learning and build the confidence to tackle life’s challenges and opportunities. In a town with too many secondary school places it has been very heartening that the school has had to increase admission numbers to cope with the demand and avoid parental disappointment.