Havelock Academy

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Havelock Academy
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Address
Havelock Academy
Holyoake Road

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DN32 8JH

Coordinates 53°33′35″N0°03′04″W / 53.5596°N 0.051°W / 53.5596; -0.051
Information
Type Academy
MottoBroadening Horizons
EstablishedSeptember 2007
Department for Education URN 135294 Tables
Ofsted Reports
SponsorDavid Ross Education Trust
PrincipalMs Emily Grace Marshall
Gender Coeducational
Age11to 18
Enrolment918
HousesArcher
Eagle
Fortune
Illustrious
Jaguar
Ramillies
Tiger
Vanguard
Former nameHavelock School
Website havelockacademy.co.uk

Havelock Academy is a secondary school and sixth form with Academy status, based in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, England.

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Admissions

It is situated north of the A46, near the junction with the A1031, on the opposite of the road from the former Matthew Humberstone School (also now an Academy).

History

The school is named after Havelok the Dane.

The Havelock School

It had around 900 boys and girls in the 1960s, administered by the County Borough of Grimsby Education Committee. It had grammar, technical, commercial and modern streams.

Comprehensive

It became a comprehensive in 1968 with 1300 boys and girls. From 1974-96 it was administered by Humberside Education Committee. In 1987, a 13-year-old boy drowned on a school trip to Scarborough.

Prior to opening in September 2007, the Academy was previously known as Havelock School.

Academy

It became an Academy in 2007, sponsored by the David Ross Education Trust. The academy was officially opened by The Duchess of Cambridge on 5 March 2013, who was carrying out engagements in Grimsby on the day.

Academic results

As a comprehensive, the school came in the bottom thirty schools in England at GCSE. In 2000, it came in the bottom forty. Around 6% gained 5 good GCSE grades.

In 2009, as an Academy, around 40% gain five good GCSEs - the fourth best in Grimsby.

Notable former pupils

The Havelock School

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