Bishop Stopford School
Address
Headlands Kettering , Northamptonshire , NN15 6BJ England
Coordinates	52°23′10″N 0°43′38″W / 52.3861°N 0.7272°W / 52.3861; -0.7272
Information
Type	Secondary Academy
Motto	Faith. Justice. Responsibility. Truth. Compassion.
Religious affiliation(s)	Church of England
Established	1535; 489 years ago (1535)
Department for Education URN	137086 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Head teacher	Jill Silverthorne
Gender	Mixed
Age	11 to 18
Enrolment	1478
Houses	8: Canterbury, Durham, Ely, Gloucester, Peterborough, Salisbury, Winchester and York
Colour(s)	Royal Blue   Gold   Black
Publication	KeyNotes, BSS World of Writing
Website	http://www.bishopstopford.com

Bishop Stopford School is a secondary school and sixth form with academy status in Kettering, Northamptonshire, England.^[1]

The school is located in the Headlands, Kettering. The current headteacher is Jill Silverthorne. Former students of Bishop Stopford are known as Old Stopfordians.

History

Bishop Stopford School was founded in 1965 as a purpose-built Secondary Modern institution, as a replacement for its precursor, a school founded in 1535 by the rector of St Peter and St Paul's Church, Kettering. The former bishop of Peterborough, Robert Stopford, agreed to the new school being named after him. Bishop Stopford School soon introduced a sixth form and admitted its first fully comprehensive intake in 1976.^[2]

On 23 May 2012, Bishop Stopford opened an extension to the sixth-form, with a study area, two seminar rooms and an additional classroom.

The number on roll has more than doubled since 1965 to approximately 1450 students, with a sixth form of approximately 400.

The school converted to academy status in August 2011.^[3]

Previous headteachers were Pat Partridge until 1974, Trevor Hopkins until 1998,^[4] James Colquhoun until 2001, and Margaret Holman from 2001 to 2018.^{[citation needed]}

Sixth form

Bishop Stopford School Sixth Form has approximately 400 students and offers 25 A Level subjects.^[5]

School performance and inspections

The last full inspection by Ofsted was in 2022, with a judgement of Requires Improvement.^[6] The report noted that the school had a longer than usual period between inspections.^[6]