Great Academy Ashton

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Great Academy Ashton
Address
Great Academy Ashton
Broadoak Road

, ,
OL6 8RF

England
Coordinates 53°30′17″N2°05′00″W / 53.5047°N 2.0833°W / 53.5047; -2.0833
Information
Type Academy
Motto“Inspiring Greatness ”
Department for Education URN 135508 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Head teacherDavid Waugh
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 16
Colour(s)Red, white and black    
Website gaa.org.uk

Great Academy Ashton (formerly New Charter Academy) is a coeducational secondary school with academy status in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England.

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The school was formed on 1 September 2008 as a result of a merger between Hartshead Sports College and Stamford High School. New Charter Academy was originally split between the two former school sites, but moved to a new £40 million sole campus in September 2011, shared with Samuel Laycock School.

Great Academy Ashton is part of the Great Academies Education Trust which also includes Copley Academy and Silver Springs Primary Academy, both in Stalybridge. [1]

Great Academy Ashton is sometimes informally known as GAA and used to be called New Charter Academy up until September 2017.

The school was placed in special measures in January 2017 and as a result the former headteacher left. The current headteacher has been working at the school since April 2017.

Notable former pupils

Hartshead County Secondary School

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  2. "David Tom POTTS". Debretts. Archived from the original on 1 March 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.