Wixams Academy

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Wixams Academy
Address
Wixams Academy
Green Lane

Wixams

Bedfordshire
,
MK42 6BA

England
Coordinates 52°05′14″N0°28′07″W / 52.0873°N 0.4687°W / 52.0873; -0.4687
Information
Type Free school
Established2017 (2017)
Local authority Bedford Borough Council
Trust Bedford College Academies Trust
Department for Education URN 144595 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Principal [1] (CEO and Interim Principal) Hywel Jones and Chris Stainsby
Gender Co-educational
Age11to 18
Enrollment403 [2]  (October 2020 [2] )
Website www.wixamsacademy.co.uk

Wixams Academy is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Wixams in the English county of Bedfordshire. [3]

The school was constructed by Willmott Dixon [4] and opened in 2017. [5] It was opened by Bedford College Academies Trust which has subsequently merged with Knowledge Schools Trust [6] in March 2024. It serves the new town development of Wixams as well as Wilstead and other nearby villages.

Wixams Academy offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils. [7] The school was due to launch a sixth form in 2022, however in April 2019 it was announced that the school was no longer planning to offer this provision. [8] However the school then confirmed a sixth form would open as originally planned in September 2022. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "About Us". Wixams Academy. Wixams Academy. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Wixams Academy - GOV.UK". get-information-schools.service.gov.uk. Gov.UK. Retrieved 26 October 2020.
  3. ↑ "Home". Wixams Academy.
  4. ↑ "Wixams school". Willmott Dixon.
  5. ↑ "Official launch of two new schools serving new village of Wixams near Bedford". www.bedfordtoday.co.uk.
  6. ↑ website, Knowledge Schools Trust. "Knowledge Schools Trust Completes Merger with Bedford College Academies Trust". Knowledge Schools Trust. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
  7. ↑ "Key Stage 3 and 4 Curriculum". Wixams Academy.
  8. ↑ Roffe, Erica (27 April 2021). "Betrayed: Students and parents upset as Wixams Academy withdraws sixth form provision".
  9. ↑ "Sixth Form".
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