Ark Acton Academy

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Ark Acton Academy
Address
Ark Acton Academy
Gunnersbury Lane


,
W3 8EY

England
Coordinates 51°30′19″N0°16′52″W / 51.5054°N 0.2810°W / 51.5054; -0.2810
Information
Type Academy
Established1906
Local authority Ealing
Department for Education URN 146318 Tables
Ofsted Reports
PrincipalOliver Knight
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 18
Enrolment1013
Test averageC-
Website https://arkacton.org/

Ark Acton Academy, is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the Acton area of the London Borough of Ealing, England. [1]

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The school teaches pupils between the ages of 11 and 18. It is sited on Gunnersbury Lane (A4000) just north of Acton Town Underground station.

History

Grammar school

The school was originally known as Acton County Grammar School, which opened in 1906 for 200 boys (at a different site). It was the first purpose-built county grammar school in Middlesex. From 1926 to 1956 the school's headmaster was GCT Giles, an Old Etonian and communist activist who was President of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) when the Education Act 1944 was introduced. [2] In 1958, the school began admitting girls, becoming fully co-educational in 1966. The year before, in 1965, the school's administration moved from Middlesex County Council to the London Borough of Ealing. When proposals for going comprehensive appeared in 1966, parents took the LEA to court and lost.

Comprehensive

The school became a comprehensive in 1967, when Ealing borough adopted the three tier system, and was known as Acton County Comprehensive. In 1974 it became Reynolds High School, named after local politician and former pupil Gerry Reynolds who has been a Minister in the 1960s and had been tipped for higher office. The 18-year-old "graduation" year of 1976 produced 4 university students out of an intake of 180 in 1969. School colours were brown and cream, with a badge showing a ring of oak leaves around a portcullis with the school name superimposed. The school roll in 1979 amounted to 1040 pupils and until its final years, consisted of eight forms per year.

In the 1970s, the neighbouring Ealing Mead County school off Popes Lane, opened in 1962, was found to have serious structural problems in its building. After only twelve years of use, Ealing Mead had to be closed and demolished. As a result, the pupils of the school were distributed around the other local schools and Reynolds High School absorbed a significant proportion of them.

Reynolds High School closed in July 1984 primarily due to falling school roll but re-opened in September the same year as Acton High School following a merger with the Faraday High School, formerly based at Bromyard Avenue. The old brick buildings, dating from 1939, were demolished in 2005, and a new school building built on the same site.

The front of the main building Acton High School, Middlesex, London, AHS.jpg
The front of the main building

Academy

Previously a community school administered by Ealing London Borough Council, in September 2018 Acton High School converted to academy status and was renamed Ark Acton Academy. The school is now sponsored by Ark Schools.

Notable former pupils

Acton County Grammar School

Reynolds High School

Acton High School

Notable staff

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References

  1. "Homepage | Ark Acton Academy".
  2. 'Mr G. C. T. Giles', The Times, 18 November 1976, p. 19.