St Paul's Catholic College
St Paul's Catholic College is a mixed-sex Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form located in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, England. Overview. The college first opened on 9 September 1963 as a modern secondary school serving the Mid-Sussex area. It was originally situated in the nearby town of Haywards Heath, but relocated to its current site at the northwestern edge of Burgess Hill in September 2004. St Pauls Catholic College in Burgess Hill took place in 2013–2014 to mark 50 years since the school opened. In April 2013 the college was appointed  as a National Teaching School and National Support School by the Department for Education. 350 schools nationally have currently taken on this leadership role. This is a responsibility to lead teacher training, professional development, research and development, leadership, raising achievement and school to school support. There is a clear commitment to support schools in an Ofsted category or requiring improvement. This is led through the Inspire Teaching School Alliance Welcome | Inspire Teaching School Alliance. St. Paul's is also a Sports College and has Leading Edge status as a high performing secondary school. The college accepts children from the  age of eleven through to eighteen, and accommodates approximately 1000 students. There were five houses: Corinth, Valletta, Damascus, Lystra and Rome, as the school expands student numbers to 1,050 students by 2014. Each form is a place significant to St. Paul's life. The school has played a role in advancing the role of e-learning in the classroom, as well as being a fair-trade school, encouraging student support for good causes, both locally and worldwide. Results have been very strong at GCSE and A-level and the college has been named consistently within the highest performing secondary schools  nationally. There is a strong belief that education should be about developing the "whole person" by looking to develop student confidence, happiness, faith and academic success. St Paul's was first graded as 'outstanding' by Ofsted in 2007. Subsequently, further reports in 2008 and 2011 confirm that St Paul's remains an 'outstanding school'. It was also graded as 'outstanding' in the Section 48 inspection by the diocese which evaluates the quality of Catholic education and the spiritual life of the school most recently in 2014. Previously a voluntary aided school administered by West Sussex County Council, in January 2022  St Paul's Catholic College converted to academy status. It is now sponsored by the Bosco Catholic Education Trust, and continues to be under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton.