Lawrence Sheriff School A GSG School
- Lawrence Sheriff School
Clifton Road
Rugby
Warwickshire
CV21 3AG - Head: Mrs Teresa Mpofu
- T 01788 843700
- F 01788 567962
- E [email protected]
- W www.lawrencesheriffschool.net
- A state school for boys aged from 11 to 18.
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Warwickshire
- Pupils: 1201; sixth formers: 450 (311 boys; 139 girls)
- Religion: None
- Open days: Sixth form open evening: October; Main school open evening: June
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Outstanding 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Outstanding 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Outstanding 1
- 1 Full inspection 29th March 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
‘When we were first considering the school, people said, “Watch out, the pastoral care is awful!”’ said a parent. ‘But it’s amazing, I couldn’t fault it.’ Students say everything is built on relationships. ‘Even if a teacher doesn’t teach you, they bother with you’ – and we picked up particularly nurturing language and tones used with younger ones. Boys we met were charm itself. Even the shy ones pushed themselves to look us in the eye and initiate conversation. Curious too – one diligent lad had Googled our names the night before. Girls told us it’s ‘easy to fit in, everyone is so welcoming’. Students drop words like ‘pedagogy’ and ‘metacognition’ into conversations as casually as other children might talk about TikTok or gaming. They told us...
What the school says...
An 11+ state grammar school with a strong sense of community and a focus upon the importance of enrichment and a broad curriculum. The development of the whole person matters as much as examination results.
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Head
Since 2022, Teresa Mpofu, who joined the school in 2013 as assistant, then deputy, head. Before that, head of biology at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys. Studied medical microbiology at Leeds, her PGCE at York. Started teaching career at a Nuneaton comp before ‘living out my childhood ambition of living and working in Africa for several years’, where she volunteered with CSV and VSO and taught in a rural school in Zimbabwe. Brought up on a council estate in Coventry, where she was on free school meals, she says her parents ‘instilled the importance of working hard’ and her school ‘opened up myriad opportunities’. Wanting to offer the same here, she wasted no time expanding the school’s outreach work.
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Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
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