Granville Academy, formerly Granville Sports College is a

comprehensive school A comprehensive school is a secondary school for pupils aged 11–16 or 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is restricted on the basis ...

on ''Burton Road'' ( A511) in Woodville,

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south a ...

maintained by the Derbyshire County Council.Granville Sports College
, web site, accessed 9 October 2008 It is part of the Affinity Learning Partnership. (Formerly The de Ferrers Trust.)

History

Granville received specialised Sports College status in January 2008. The county council was looking at a possible merger between the school and the

William Allitt School William Allitt Academy (formerly William Allitt School), is a co-educational secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lo ...

. but this is no longer on the cards. The school is near the very busy

A511 road The A511 road is a stretch of mainly single-carriageway road which runs northwest from Markfield in Leicestershire, England to Foston in South Derbyshire. It links the towns of Coalville, Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Burton upon Trent. It has a ju ...

, which has been the scene of accidents some involving pupils. The traffic has increased since the

Ashby-de-la-Zouch Ashby-de-la-Zouch (), also spelled Ashby de la Zouch, is a market town and civil parish in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England, near to the Derbyshire and Staffordshire borders. Its population at the 2021 census was ...

bypass opened in March 2002. Plans by the local council, Derbyshire County Council, aiming to improve road safety were rejected by Granville Academy with a spokesperson for the trust that runs Granville Academy suggesting this was because of "...concerns around site security and the safeguarding of its students". The current Executive Principal for the school is Mrs M Oliphant and has employed many new members of staff including Gemma Lowe

Partner schools

Most of the school's students come from Belmont, Eureka, Hartshorne, Springfield, St. Edwards Netherseal and Woodville, primary schools but also accepts some children from Leicestershire into its 830 available places. Some students of the past also attended this school from as far afield as ticknall village and staunton harold and the boundary areas near ashby del-a-zouch in the past decades especially the 1960s 1970s and 1980s School Prospectus
2008

Academic performance

The school gets very good exam results for Derbyshire at

GCSE The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is an academic qualification in a range of subjects taken in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, having been introduced in September 1986 and its first exams taken in 1988. State schools ...

, with very high results in the region and the highest between the three local schools in Swadlincote. Pingle and William Allit being those other schools. As of 2017, 69% of students achieved grade 4+ (previously grade C and above) at GCSE for both English and Maths. While 6% of students achieving the highest grade 9 (previously grade A**).

References

External links

Granville Academy

School report 2008

Politics Show February 2008

Edubase

News items

Three pupils expelled for drugs in July 2007
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