page_title: St Laurence School
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: St Laurence School / History
caption_attribution_description: St. Lawrence, Bradford on Avon, England
context_page_description: St Laurence School is a secondary school in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England. It became an Academy in August 2011.
  Besides Bradford on Avon, the school takes pupils from Atworth, Monkton Farleigh, Winsley, Limpley Stoke, South Wraxall, Bradford Leigh and Trowbridge. It is situated in the northwest of the town, off the road towards Little Ashley.
context_section_description: The school was founded in 1980 as a result of the merger of Fitzmaurice Grammar School and Trinity Secondary Modern school, opening on the Trinity site. It is named after the historically-important Saxon St Laurence's Church, Bradford-on-Avon.
  Under the Specialist schools programme of 1997–2010 the school had Arts College status, resulting in extra investment in drama, music and dance facilities.
  The school's teaching departments are spread across numerous buildings on the school site. The site also has a large sports hall and several sports courts, pitches and playing fields. A lecture theatre was built in 2007 and was joined by a state-of-the-art independent learning centre in 2011.
  In October 2005, a helium balloon launched at a school fete on 24 September 2005 was found by 53-year-old Isak Toyra in Karesuando, Sweden, who sent it back to the school and claimed a £10 prize. Karesuando is 1,430 miles (2,300 km) from the school, and information about the school was also sent to him.
caption: St Laurence's church
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