Anthony Gell School

Anthony Gell School is a mixed, comprehensive, non-denominational secondary school with sixth form situated in Matlock, Derbyshire. It is a voluntary controlled state school. Slightly smaller than the average-sized secondary school, the school currently provides 823 places for secondary and sixth form students, and is over subscribed.

The school's origins go back to Anthony Gell, who founded a Free Grammar School in 1576, which has since gone through a number of changes. It moved to its present site in 1907, become a voluntary controlled school in 1944, turned into a co-educational comprehensive school in 1965 and had new sports facilities built in 2000.

Headteacher

Malcolm Kelly

Values and Vision

The school motto is “care aspire achieve”. It is a school that prides itself as being inclusive, caring and encouraging, while always recognising the need to provide an environment where children feel they can succeed. The school puts its success down to nurturing its students’ personal growth and meeting the needs of its individual students. Anthony Gell was also Derbyshire’s first specialist sports college, owning a number of state of the art sports facilities to help the student experience.

Ofsted

“The headteacher provides inspiring leadership. His vision for the school, which puts the students at its heart, is shared by staff, governors and parents. Leaders, including governors, ensure that the school is a safe environment and students are exceptionally well-cared for. The school’s programmes of study support the ethos of the school and meets students’ needs well. They promote students’ spiritual, moral, social and cultural development very effectively.”

View Anthony Gell School’s latest Ofsted report