The Gainsborough Academy

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

The Gainsborough Academy
Address
Sweyn Lane

Gainsborough
,
Lincolnshire
,
DN21 1PB

England
Coordinates53.4083°N 0.7545°W / 53.4083; -0.7545
Information
TypeAcademy
MottoWe aim to send all young people into an ever-changing world able and qualified to play their full part in it.[1]
Established1 September 2008 (by merger, as Trent Valley Academy)
SpecialistsPerforming arts & technology
Department for Education URN145954 Tables
OfstedReports
Executive PrincipalMrs R Skelton
Acting PrincipalMrs A Leng
GenderCo-educational
Age11 to 16
HousesValiant, Endeavour, Challenge, Discover
Websitethegainsboroughacademy.org.uk

It opened as Trent Valley Academy on 1 September 2008. 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 built on Corringham Road, Gainsborough. The construction project has produced a four-storey, 15,000-square-metre building on a 12-hectare site. This was the first new school built in Lincolnshire in over 40 years, and budgeted at £23 million,[2] with a final cost of around £40 million.[3]

It was established by the lead sponsor E-ACT (EduTrust Academies Charitable Trust) in partnership with the local community Gainsborough Educational Village Trust.[4] It was officially opened in June 2010 by the Duke of Gloucester.

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.[5] On 1 June 2014, the Academy became the Gainsborough Academy, under the sponsorship of the main local provider of further education, Lincoln College, and became part of the Lincoln College Group.

Having received an 'inadequate' grade from Ofsted and being put in special measures in December 2016,[6] Gainsborough Academy changed sponsor again and moved to Wickersley Partnership Trust, its third sponsor in less than a decade, on 1 June 2018.[7]

References
  1. "School Vision & Values – The Gainsborough Academy". thegainsboroughacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. "£23m academy gears up for its completion". Gainsborough Standard. Archived from the original on 17 November 2017.
  3. "A New School for Gainsborough", BBC News (Lincolnshire), 13 November 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  4. "Trent Valley Academy". E-ACT. Archived from the original on 25 March 2013. Retrieved 12 June 2013.
  5. "Gainsborough: E-Act loses control of Trent Valley Academy". Gainsborough Standard. 26 February 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  6. Clarke, Jamie. "School Report: The Gainsborough Academy". GOV.UK. Ofsted. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  7. "The Gainsborough Academy". GOV.UK. Department for Education. Retrieved 27 May 2020.


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