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John Cabot Academy

Academies in South Gloucestershire DistrictFormer city technology collegesKingswood, South GloucestershireSecondary schools in South Gloucestershire DistrictUse British English from February 2023

John Cabot Academy (formerly John Cabot CTC) is one of 15 City Technology Colleges that first opened for students in the 1993/1994 academic year. It has since converted to Academy status on 1 September 2007. It is located east of Bristol, England in the Kingswood area of South Gloucestershire and is named after John Cabot, an explorer who set out from Bristol and reached the Americas in 1497. The academy has 1,078 students, about 220 of whom are in the sixth form.

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John Cabot Academy

Greenore
BS15 8BD Bristol
England, United Kingdom
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