James Calvert Spence College

James Calvert Spence College is a coeducational community school and sixth form located in Amble in the English county of Northumberland.^[1] The school is named after Sir James Calvert Spence, a decorated war hero and paediatrician.

James Calvert Spence College
James Calvert Spence College
Address
Acklington Road and South Avenue Amble Northumberland England
Coordinates	55.32911°N 1.58790°W / 55.32911; -1.58790
Information
Type	Community school
Local authority	Northumberland
Department for Education URN	122363 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Executive Headteacher	James Andriot
Gender	Coeducational
Age	10 to 18
Enrolment	733 as of January 2025[update]
Website	http://www.jcsc.co.uk/

The school was formed in 2011 from the merger of Amble Middle School, Druridge Bay Community Middle School and Coquet High School, originally serving 2 sites: South Avenue and Acklington Road, where South Avenue served as a middle school and Acklington Road a secondary school. The school is administered by Northumberland County Council^[2] and has an intake of pupils from Acklington, Amble, Broomhill, Hadston, Red Row, Warkworth and Widdrington.^[3]

The South Avenue site is no longer controlled by James Calvert Spence College, now split between Barndale-by-the-Sea (owned by Barndale House School in Alnwick) and King Edwin Primary School (formerly Amble First School at a different site).^[4]

James Calvert Spence College offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils,^[5] while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels, further BTECs and T-Levels..^[6]