Perins School

Perins School is an academy, Sports College and secondary school in New Alresford, Hampshire, England.PerformancePerins is a well performing school, achieving GCSE pass rates well above the national average. 72% of pupils obtained five or more GCSES grade C or above including maths and English in 2009, compared with the national average of 47.6%. In 2000, OFSTED reported that pupils' attainment had risen from "above average" to "well above average". In the 2010 OFSTED inspection report it was given outstanding status. In 2013, it was given good status.HousesThe houses used to be named after space shuttles. Challenger Discovery Endeavour However, in 2016, the new headteacher (Steve Jones) added a new house and changed the names of the existing ones. The changes and addition are as follows: Ignis house (fire in Latin) formerly Endeavour (red) Terra house (earth in Latin) formerly Challenger (green) Ventus house (wind in Latin) formerly Discovery (yellow) Aqua house (water in Latin) the new house (purple)Blocks7 main blocks Pascal: Eliot: - Eliot and Pascal were built in the 70s. Rousseau: The original school house Ibsen: Newton: Stephenson: . The buildings' names are combined to create the acronym of the school's name, PERINS, and are consequentially in order as you move from the top to the bottom of the school. Turing: A new block behind Evolution, was built to accommodate the growing maths department. Upon completing the new building, Pascal became entirely for the English department, construction began in late 2013 and was finished by the Summer Term of 2014.