Kempston Challenger Academy


Kempston Challenger Academy is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located on Hill Rise in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England. The school forms part of an educational campus which also includes a Child Development Centre and Ridgeway School.
The school was originally named Hastingsbury Upper School and Community College, and later became a Business and Enterprise College. It was previously an upper school, teaching children from the age of 13 to 18. It was also a foundation school administered by Bedford Borough Council; it converted to academy status November 2015 and is now sponsored by the Challenger multi-academy trust. The school was later renamed Kempston Challenger Academy. The school extended its lower age range in 2017 and is now a secondary school.
The school offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study. Pupils in the sixth form can choose to study from a range of A Levels and BTECs.