St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy

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St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy
Motto Garde ta foi
Established 1965
Type Academy
Religion Roman Catholic
Headteacher Mrs J. McCarthy
Location Abbot Road
Kirk Hallam
Derbyshire
DE7 4HX
England
DfE number 830/5415
DfE URN 137908 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Students 609 as of January 2015
Gender Mixed
Ages 11–16
Website School homepage

St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy (formerly St John Houghton Catholic School) is a mixed Roman Catholic secondary school located in Kirk Hallam (near Ilkeston) in the English county of Derbyshire.[1] The school is named after Saint John Houghton, a Carthusian hermit and Catholic priest who was the first English Catholic martyr to die as a result of the Act of Supremacy by King Henry VIII of England.

It was established as a voluntary aided school in January 1965 called The Blessed John Houghton Catholic School. The school was converted to academy status on 1 March 2012 and was renamed St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy. The school is now administered as part of the St Robert Lawrence Catholic Academy Trust, which also includes two nearby primary schools. The St Robert Lawrence Catholic Academy Trust is overseen by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham.[2]

St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy offers GCSEs and OCR Nationals as programmes of study for pupils. The school gained specialist status as a Science College in 2005, and continues to specialise in science.[3]

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