Ashmole is a high-performing 11-19 mixed school that seeks to provide the highest quality of education and the highest standard of academic success for its students. Ashmole Academy has around 1500 students on roll including a Sixth Form of around 380 students. Ashmole Academy emphasizes all areas of the curriculum being highly successful. However, within that, the academy seeks to stress extracurricular Music and at the Sixth Form level, Science and Maths as particular aspects of the school's provision.
The ethos of the school is founded on the quality of relationships between all who work and learn here. Such relationships are characterized by mutual respect, consideration, and common courtesy, irrespective of position, gender, race, disability, or culture.
At Ashmole Academy, young people are valued. Between the home and school is essential if our young people are to gain the maximum benefit from their schooling. The school’s strong pastoral support system enables us to develop effective home-school relationships that are beneficial to the student concerned.
Education is about preparing young people for their future. Students leave school to go to university, college, or to start a career in their chosen field of employment. To assist in the preparation for that future, the school has an extensive Sixth Form provision covering a wide range of courses, career facilities, and a well-proven system for helping our young people with their university applications. Ashmole academy also has a dedicated gifted and talented team to ensure that aspirational Oxbridge students or those wishing to pursue a career in medicine, for example, are highly successful in their ambition.
Ashmole is a forward-looking school, keen to strive for further improvements in the quality of education. Academy recognizes that the quality of facilities can help students excel. Therefore Academy has the very best in terms of accommodation and resources providing superb opportunities for the students to increase their enjoyment of school life, as well as having the latest teaching opportunities. In 2014, the new Sixth Form Centre, with a Starbucks Café, a social learning area, and a high-tech study center suitable for e-learning was opened.
At Ashmole, every individual is valued for who they are and what they contribute to the school. Values Education supports the personal and social development of every pupil through the school. The Ashmole Values are Endeavour, Reflection, Professionalism, Responsibility, Respect, and Co-operation.
