Stour_Valley_Community_School
Stour Valley Community School
Free school in Clare, Suffolk, England
Stour Valley Community School is a coeducational free school for pupils aged 11 to 16 in Clare in the English county of Suffolk. It opened in September 2011 as one of the first 24 free schools in England.[1][2][3] It opened with around 170 pupils and a total staff of 29, including non-teaching support staff.[3] The headteacher is Rachel Kelly.[4]
The school opened on the site of the former Clare Middle School which had around 300 pupils in four year groups.[5] A building programme estimated to cost around £4.8 million and take around a year to complete and carried out by Balfour Beatty.[3][6][7] The middle school closed in August 2011 as part of Suffolk County Council's reorganisation of schools into a two-tier system.[7]
At the beginning of the autumn term (starting in September) of 2016, the school had 573 pupils.