St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy

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. 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.

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.

External links

• St John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy official website