The Gainsborough Academy

The Gainsborough Academy
Motto 'High Expectations
Established 2008
(By Merger, As Trent Valley Academy)
Type Academy
Executive Principal Mr D Hudson
Acting Principal Mrs A Leng
Location Sweyn Lane
Gainsborough
Lincolnshire
DN21 1PB
England
53°24′30″N 0°45′16″W / 53.4083°N 0.7545°W / 53.4083; -0.7545Coordinates: 53°24′30″N 0°45′16″W / 53.4083°N 0.7545°W / 53.4083; -0.7545
DfE URN 135666 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Gender Coeducational
Ages 11–16
Houses Valiant, Endeavour, Challenge, Discover
Website www.theGainsboroughAcademy.org.uk

The Gainsborough Academy is a secondary school with academy status located in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England. The academy has specialisms in technology and performing arts.

It opened as Trent Valley Academy on 1 September 2009. It is a mainstream (11-16) school created by the merger of two existing secondary schools, Castle Hills and Middlefield School. The two predecessor sites are now closed, and a new purpose-built facility has been occupied in Corringham Road, Gainsborough. The construction project has produced a four-storey, 15,000-square-metre building on a 12-hectare site. This is the first new school built in Lincolnshire in over 40 years, and budgeted at £23million,[1] with a final cost of around £40 million [2]

It was established by the lead sponsor E-ACT (EduTrust Academies Charitable Trust) in partnership with the local community Gainsborough Educational Village Trust.[3] It was officially opened in June 2010 by the Duke of Gloucester.

However, in 2014 it was announced that following serious concerns being raised by OFSTED Inspectors about its performance, the school would be put under a new sponsor.[4] As of 1 June 2014, the Academy has become the Gainsborough Academy, under the sponsorship of the main local provider of further education, Lincoln College and is now part of the Lincoln College Group.

References

  1. ↑ "£23m academy gears up for its completion".
  2. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/lincolnshire/content/image_galleries/tva_gallery.shtml
  3. ↑ "Trent Valley Academy". E-ACT. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  4. ↑ "Gainsborough Standard Report". Gainsborough Standard. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
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