Broadlands Academy is a

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 ...

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, England. Formerly known as Broadlands School founded in 1935, the academy opened in December 2012. The school, which had specialist

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and

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status, has 603 students between the ages of 11 and 16 years, as of 2019. The academy is located near the north-west edge of the

local authority area, and attracts many of its pupils from outside the local authority area. In 2006, 69% of pupils came from

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and

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. This led the local authority to consider amalgamating the school with the nearby Wellsway School, though in 2010 a decision was made not to proceed with this proposal. In July 2012, Justine Hocking (who worked alongside students and staff to ensure that the school would remain open in 2010) stepped down as head after working at the school for 10 years. Broadlands converted to an academy with the

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in December 2012. Mr Dean Anderson took over from Richard Williams (interim head Sep – Dec 2012) as Headteacher of Broadlands Academy in January 2013. Mr James Hall was the head of the school since 2017. The Principal since July 2020 has been Miss Louise Hamilton.

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