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Bury St Edmunds County Upper School is a 13 to 19 co-educational comprehensive high-performing academy〔(County Upper School page on Suffolk County Council Education and Learning web site abstracted 14 September 2011 )〕 part of the Bury St Edmunds All-Through Trust comprising County Upper School, Horringer Court School, Westley School and Barrow CEVC and Tollgate Primaries.〔(DfES List of Open Academies and Schools Submitting Applications )〕 It is one of three 13-18 schools serving the town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England and its surrounding villages. Pupils enter Year 9 primarily from three catchment Middle Schools in Bury St Edmunds but students are drawn widely from across the villages and towns of West Suffolk.〔(Suffolk County Council map of CUS Catchment area )〕 The school is regularly〔 over-subscribed with 266 first-choice applicants in 2009/10, 287 in 2010/11, 282 for 2011/12, 279 for 2012/13〔(Suffolk County Council booklet Upper/High Schools in Suffolk 2012 )〕 and 268 for 2014/15 〔Answer to FOI question 8059 to Suffolk County Council dated 18 July 2014〕 against a LEA Planned Admission Number of 260.〔(Suffolk County Council Guide to Upper/High School Admissions 2011/12 )〕 In September 2013 the number of students on roll was 992 and it is expected that will remain relatively unchanged for the foreseeable future. Attached to the main school is a Sixth Form, which at present stands at around 209 students spread between Years 12 and 13.〔(School population taken from latest DfE statistics September 2011 )〕 The school is located on Beetons Way, on the outskirts of town, next to St Benedict's Roman Catholic Upper School, which has close links with the County Upper Sixth Form. County Upper School has specialisms in science and languages with an Able and Talented Focus,〔 and is also accredited as a "Consultant School" by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust〔(Bury Free Press article 8 October 2010 )〕 Together with Westley School, part of the Bury St Edmunds All-Through Trust, it is the Area Hub for West Suffolk and East Cambridgeshire for the Computing At School Network of Excellence〔(Bury St Edmunds Computing at School Hub webpage )〕 as part of the joint effort by the BCS, Chartered Institute for IT〔(Computing at School and BCS web page )〕 and the Computing Industry to provide leadership and strategic guidance to all those involved in Computing education in schools. The school is accredited with the National College for School Leadership as a Teaching School and is part of the West Suffolk All-Through Teaching School Alliance,〔(WSTSA Webpage abstracted 5 October 2013 )〕 to train and develop teachers from September 2013〔(BFP Article 15 March 2013 )〕 and it is also the lead Suffolk school in the Suffolk and Norfolk Initial Teacher Training (SNITT) initiative,〔(SNITT website abstracted 23 Dec 2012 )〕 in partnership with Suffolk County Council and University College Suffolk, which is part of the Department for Education's School Direct Training Programme.〔(SDP page DfE website abstracted 23 Dec 2012 )〕 ==Bury St Edmunds All-Through Trust== As a school rated by Ofsted as "Outstanding" (1999, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2013)〔(2013 Ofsted Report for Inspection 18-19 September 2013 )〕 under the Academies Act 2010 County Upper School applied to become a High-Performing Academy – a publicly funded independent school. Together with Horringer Court School, Westley School, Tollgate Primary School and Barrow CEVC Primary School, and working closely with Howard Middle School,〔(EADT Article dated 6 March 2014 abstracted 22 Augsust 2014 )〕 it forms the 4-18 Bury St Edmunds All-Through Trust〔(Bury St Edmunds All-Through Trust web site )〕 with the potential for students to move flexibly through the pyramid in accordance with their ability and aptitude allowing the six schools to work together strategically to drive up even further their standards and results.〔(Bury Free Press article dated 23 July 2012 abstracted 2 September 2012 )〕 The All-Through Academy Trust received the go-ahead from the Department of Education in September 2015 to create a Technical Academy alongside it's traditional academic pathway offering 14-18 year-old students vocational education in Science, Technology, Mathematics and Engineering (STEM) working alongside industry to allowing a work-place based study. The Technical Academy plans to open in September 2017. Current industry and University partners include Microsoft, ARM, Bosch, British Sugar, Claas UK, BT, EDF, Marshall Aerospace, Rolls-Royce, Redgate Software, Treatt, UK Power Networks, Vitec, Suffolk Education Business Partnership and the University of East Anglia.〔(Bury Free Press interview dated 21 September 2015 abstracted 30 September 2015 )〕〔(Bury Free Press article dated 02 September 2015 abstracted 30 September 2015 )〕 The Trust, in this instance led by County Upper, has become an Early Adopter of the World Class Schools Quality Mark.〔(List of Early Adopters from the World Class Schools website )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「County Upper School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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