The Hans Price Academy, formerly known as Wyvern Community School, is a

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secondary school located on the Bournville estate in

Weston-super-Mare Weston-super-Mare, also known simply as Weston, is a seaside town in North Somerset, England. It lies by the Bristol Channel south-west of Bristol between Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill. It includes the suburbs of Mead Vale, Milton, Oldmix ...

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, England. The school (which previously had specialist

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status) had 743 students between the ages of 11 and 16 years as of 2013. In 2009, 31% of the pupils at the school achieved 5 or more GCSE passes at grade C or above including mathematics and English, and a

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(CVA) figure of 1002.1. In 2010, the GCSE score improved to 35%, but was still the lowest in

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, and was below the local authority average of 56.1% and national average of 53.4%. In 2009, plans to turn the school into an

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were revealed. On 1 May 2011, Wyvern School became the Hans Price Academy, named after local Victorian architect

Hans Price Hans Price (1835–1912) was the architect responsible for much of the development of Weston-super-Mare, in North Somerset, England, during the Victorian era. Life Hans Fowler Price was born in St James's parish, Bristol. He studied under Thomas ...

. The academy is now run by educational charity Cabot Learning Foundation, which plans to spend £14 million transforming the site.

Notable former pupils

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, actor. * Jim Harper, writer and horror film critic.

References

External links

* {{authority control Academies in North Somerset Schools in Weston-super-Mare Secondary schools in North Somerset