King Richard School

King Richard School is a mixed secondary school in the Paulsgrove district of Portsmouth, England. Established in 1952 as Paulsgrove Secondary Modern School - it was renamed King Richard School in 1975. The school is funded by a mixed trust and has approximately 700 students on roll. The school provides a mainstream National Curriculum education to GCSE, BTEC and OCR Nationals in ICT. Among the schools in the Portsmouth area that feed the school are Portsdown Primary, Paulsgrove Primary School, and St Paul's. In 2006 the school was awarded Arts College status for performing arts. The school has won and been runners up in the Rock Challenge and in 2006 students from King Richard School won the Rock Crew of the Year Award. A November 2009 Ofsted inspection assessed the school with Grade 3 (satisfactory). In October 2012 the school was Ofsted inspected again, and assessed the school as Grade 2 (Good).