Beamont Collegiate Academy (formerly William Beamont Community High School) is a mixed

secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...

in the Orford area of

Warrington Warrington () is an industrial town in the Borough of Warrington, borough of the same name in Cheshire, England. The town sits on the banks of the River Mersey and was Historic counties of England, historically part of Lancashire. It is east o ...

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, England. The school is named after

William Beamont William Beamont (1797–1889) was an English solicitor and local philanthropist. He lived in the town of Warrington, in the north-west of England. Life Beamont was the first mayor of Warrington after its incorporation as a municipal boro ...

, a Victorian philanthropist and the first mayor of Warrington. Previously a community school administered by

Warrington Borough Council Warrington Borough Council is the local authority of the Borough of Warrington, a local government district in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Warrington has had a borough council since 1847, which has been reformed on several occasio ...

, William Beamont Community High School converted to academy status in 2013 and was renamed Beamont Collegiate Academy. The school was previously sponsored by Warrington Collegiate, but was a founding member of the Challenge Academy Trust in 2016. The school moved into a new building in 2016, funded by the Government's Priority Schools Building Programme, on the same site and constructed by

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. On the 21 May 2025, Gareth Harris stepped down from his role as principal.

Notable attendees

Former Manchester United footballer, Jesse Lingard, attended the school.

References

External links

Beamont Collegiate Academy official website
Secondary schools in Warrington Academies in Warrington {{Cheshire-school-stub