Chiltern Hills Academy is a co-educational

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. It is a Church Of England school, which takes children from the age of 11 through to the age of 18. The school has approximately 700 students. It has Design Academy

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status.

History

''Chesham Park School'' was formed in 1988 by merging the Cestreham Boys’ School and the Lowndes Girls’ School. It was renamed ''Chesham Park Community College'' in 1993. In 2004 the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) awarded the school

specialist school Specialist schools, also known as specialised schools or specialized schools, are schools which specialise in a certain area or field of curriculum. In some countries, for example New Zealand, the term is used exclusively for schools specialis ...

status as an

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, specialising in the Performing Arts. In 2007 the school won three awards at a UK Rock Challenge competition at

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. The school hosts an offshoot of

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known as "Shed@ThePark". In 2011 the school's name was changed to ''Chiltern Hills Academy''. The specialist status of Performing Arts has been combined with Design. These specialist subjects are used to support a creative and enriched curriculum.

School performance

In 2015, 51% of pupils achieved five or more A* to C grades including English and Mathematics at

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level. At

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and AS-Level, students attain an average 575 points. These results reflect Buckinghamshire's

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policy, as the school shares its catchment area with three

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Chesham Grammar School Chesham Grammar School is a co-educational grammar school on White Hill, Chesham, Buckinghamshire. There are about 1,300 pupils aged between eleven and eighteen, including over 400 in the sixth form. In 2007, the Department for Education awarde ...

, Dr. Challoner's Grammar School and

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.Grammar School Catchment Areas (Boys)
Buckinghamshire County Council. Retrieved on 2008-06-11

Academy status

The school gained approval to convert to reopen as an Academy in August 2011. The Academy, is sponsored by the

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Amersham and Wycombe College Amersham ( ) is a market town and civil parish within the unitary authority of Buckinghamshire, England, in the Chiltern Hills, northwest of central London, from Aylesbury and from High Wycombe. Amersham is part of the London commuter belt ...

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, and the George Abbot Specialist Visual Arts College in

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, Surrey.

References

External links

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Department for Education Performance Tables 2011
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