De Aston School

Story

De Aston School is a mixed secondary school with academy status in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, England. It also has a sixth form and boarding house. The school has a broad Christian ethos but accommodates those of other faiths or no faith.AdmissionsThe school has approximately 904 pupils. The school provides boarding accommodation for around 80 pupils, many of whom come from abroad. De Aston is a specialist school in mathematics and computing.HistoryGrammar schoolDe Aston School was founded in 1863 as a small grammar school, as part of a legal settlement following a court case involving funds from the medieval charity of Thomas De Aston, a 13th-century monk. Until recently, the school's Foundation Governors also owned the chapel at the site of the charity's Almshouses at Spital on the Street, a few miles away to the west.The school's headmaster originally had his own house on the school site. The Victorian Gothic red brick house was built in 1863 and was designated as a Grade II listed building by English Heritage in 1984. As a grammar school it was administered by the Lindsey Education Committee, based in Lincoln, and became co-educational in 1971.ComprehensiveIt became a comprehensive in 1974, amalgamating with Market Rasen Secondary Modern School on Kilnwell Road. At the same time, new buildings were opened.AcademyThe school converted to academy status in March 2011.