Filey School (named Ebor Academy Filey for a time) is a

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located in

Filey Filey () is a seaside town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is located between Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Scarborough and Bridlington on Filey Bay. Although it was a fishing village, it has a large ...

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, England. It is the only secondary school in Filey, and it also covers surrounding villages, with a significant intake from

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. The school is under the Enhanced Mainstream School (EMS) umbrella created by

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, which means the school is specialised in

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students.

History

A 2010

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report for the school gave a Grade 3 (satisfactory) rating, stating that "This is a satisfactory school. Some areas of its work are good." The school, until March 2013, had a swimming pool that was open to the residents of Filey, until a shortfall in funding, and inaccurate financial information preventing rescue funding, forced it to close. This was amid claims that North Yorkshire County Council was underfunding the school, a claim it denied. Another Ofsted inspection in 2013 reduced the school's rating to Grade 4 (inadequate) – the lowest possible grade – citing "achievement of pupils" and "quality of teaching" as inadequate, and "behaviour and safety of pupils" and "leadership and management" as requiring improvement, saying overall that "this is a school that has serious weaknesses". In September 2014, Filey School fell into

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, being rated Grade 4 (inadequate) in all four categories. In July 2015 a whistleblower leaked a report about the serious failings of Filey School. The whistleblower states "The school would be better closed because the level of education the students' are getting at the moment is almost nonexistent", said the anonymous source. The school converted to academy status in September 2015 and was renamed Ebor Academy Filey. However, due to continued poor performance the school became part of the Coast and Vale Learning Trust in 2022, and adopted its previous name of Filey School.

Subjects taught

The following

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subjects are taught at the school:

Notable former pupils

* Andy Crawford, footballer, most notably with

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and

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– founding member of, and vocalist in,

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band

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References

External links

School website
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