Bacon's College was opened in 1991 as an all-ability 11-19 school built in the heart of the London Docklands on a 'Brown Field' site.The College is committed to providing the best possible education for its students and to serving its community as a centre for learning and leisure.The College itself was built through a partnership between the government, church and commercial sponsors. These sponsors were:
The sponsors representatives formed a Board of Trustees who had ultimate responsibility for the College.
In September 2007 Bacon`s College changed its status to become an Academy. The Government`s Academy programme provided an opportunity to further develop the important work that Bacons CTC had started, and with the promise of additional funding to enhance our buildings and facilities, Trustees and Governors, after a full consultation with stakeholders, agreed to Bacon`s adopting Academy status.
Appropriately the Academy model for Secondary Schools was based largely on the CTC model, so there were few changes required.
Our specialism as an Academy is Digital Media which we plan to integrate into the whole curriculum, giving our students skills and opportunities for progression which are most suited to the society we now live in.