Jubilee High School

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Jubilee High School is a coeducational secondary school with academy status, located in Addlestone, Surrey, England. The school holds Artsmark Gold Award and International School status.HistoryThe school was formed in September 1985 by the merger of St Paul's County Secondary School, Addlestone and The Meads County Secondary School, Chertsey, on the St Paul's site. Stepgates County Secondary School, Chertsey, had merged with The Meads in 1964.Originally the school was called Abbeylands School. The Foundation Trustees own a large site that goes back to ownership by Chertsey Abbey.Standards declined, until by 2000 Abbeylands was the lowest performing Surrey state secondary school in the published league tables. In September 2000 the school had only 541 pupils on roll against a capacity of 800; the school estimated that it needed 750 pupils on roll to achieve sufficient financial viability to erode a substantial deficit (about £160,000). Options for the future of the school, including closure, federation with another school and regeneration, were considered by the LEA, Surrey County Council.Abbeylands was identified as a Fresh Start school and closed, to reopen renamed Jubilee High in September 2002.Jubilee High was established as a Foundation School supported by a Trust in partnership with Nord Anglia Education plc, in what was at the time a radical plan for private sector involvement in state education. Nord Anglia won the seven-year contract to help run the school in a competition reportedly shortlisted against Vosper Thorneycroft, following its previous work with Abbeylands, which had been the first school management contract awarded to a profit making company. The Department for Education and Skills awarded £2.5 million of start-up funding following a joint submission by Nord Anglia and Surrey County Council.