Adcote School

Adcote School is an independent day and boarding school for girls, located in the village of Little Ness, 5mi northwest of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The school was founded in 1907, and is set in a Grade I listed country house built in 1879 for Rebecca Darby, the widow of Alfred Darby I (1807–52) and a great niece of Abraham Darby. The Darbys were the iron-master family who built Ironbridge. The school has a Junior School that takes girls aged 5 to 11, and the Senior School for girls aged 11 to 16 and a Sixth Form takes girls from 16–19. As of April 2016, the school is owned by IQ Education (IQE), a Chinese backed education company based in Birmingham. The school transferred from a charity to a limited company status, managed by IQE. The school is a sister school to Myddelton College in Denbigh, also owned by the same company. The school is a member of the Girls School Association, the Independent Schools Association and the Independent Schools Council. In 2012, the school won the Independent Schools Association 'Award for Excellence', reflecting whole school achievement in independent education. In January 2013, the Department for Education ranked Adcote fourth in England in its A Level performance tables. In 2014, the school was awarded the Gold Award by the Mayor of Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury Town Council, recognising the school’s “outstanding contribution to the community”. In 2015, the school was shortlisted in the national TES Independent School Awards; the school had previously been shortlisted in 2011 and 2014.

Adcote School is an independent day and boarding school for girls, located in the village of Little Ness, 5mi northwest of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. The school was founded in 1907, and is set in a Grade I listed country house built in 1879 for Rebecca Darby, the widow of Alfred Darby I (1807–52) and a great niece of Abraham Darby. The Darbys were the iron-master family who built Ironbridge. The school has a Junior School that takes girls aged 5 to 11, and the Senior School for girls aged 11 to 16 and a Sixth Form takes girls from 16–19. As of April 2016, the school is owned by IQ Education (IQE), a Chinese backed education company based in Birmingham. The school transferred from a charity to a limited company status, managed by IQE. The school is a sister school to Myddelton College in Denbigh, also owned by the same company. The school is a member of the Girls School Association, the Independent Schools Association and the Independent Schools Council. In 2012, the school won the Independent Schools Association 'Award for Excellence', reflecting whole school achievement in independent education. In January 2013, the Department for Education ranked Adcote fourth in England in its A Level performance tables. In 2014, the school was awarded the Gold Award by the Mayor of Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury Town Council, recognising the school’s “outstanding contribution to the community”. In 2015, the school was shortlisted in the national TES Independent School Awards; the school had previously been shortlisted in 2011 and 2014.