Outwood Academy Hemsworth, known previously as Hemsworth Arts and Community Academy and Hemsworth Arts and Community College, is a

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and

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located in

Hemsworth Hemsworth is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. Historic counties of England, Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire and had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, ...

in the

City of Wakefield Wakefield, also known as the City of Wakefield, is a Local government in England, local government district with City status in the United Kingdom, city status and a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England. Wakefield, the largest settl ...

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, England. The school is operated by

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, and the principal is Toby Rutter.

History

The school was opened in 1921, set up by the West Riding County Council's Education Committee and was known as Hemsworth Grammar School. (It is not to be confused with Archbishop Holgate's grammar school, founded in Hemsworth in 1546, which moved to Barnsley in 1888.) It was renamed Hemsworth High School when the school became comprehensive. In 2001, the school gained specialist status as an

Arts College An Arts College, in the United Kingdom, is a type of specialist school that specialises in the subject fields of the performing, visual, digital and/or media arts. They were announced in 1996 and introduced alongside Sports Colleges to En ...

and was renamed Hemsworth Arts and Community College. The school converted to academy status in August 2014 and was renamed Hemsworth Arts and Community Academy. It was sponsored by the

Wakefield City Academies Trust Wakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) was a multi-academy trust (MAT) that managed 21 schools (14 primary and 7 secondary) across West Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, and the East Riding of Yorkshire. As an academy trust, it was an exempt charity reg ...

, a multi-academy trust. Hemsworth Arts and Community Academy offers

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and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of

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s and further BTECs. The school also offers

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courses to the local community. On 1 May 2018, the school became part of

, reopening as Outwood Academy Hemsworth.

Notable former pupils

Hemsworth High School

* David Wainwright, cricketer * Scott Askham, MMA fighter

Hemsworth Grammar School

Derek Birley Sir Derek Sydney Birley (31 May 1926 – 14 May 2002) was a distinguished English educationalist and a prize-winning writer on the social history of sport, particularly cricket. Life and career Born in a mining community in West Yorkshire, Birl ...

, educationalist and writer, Vice-Chancellor from 1984 to 1981 of the

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Geoffrey Boycott Sir Geoffrey Boycott (born 21 October 1940) is a former Test cricketer, who played cricket for Yorkshire and England. In a prolific and sometimes controversial playing career from 1962 to 1986, Boycott established himself as one of England's m ...

, legendary Yorkshire and England cricketer (batsman) *

Phil Bull Phil Bull (9 April 1910 – 11 June 1989), born West Yorkshire, England, was a professional gambler, racehorse owner and publisher, who founded the Timeform private handicapping system for British horseracing. Since 1948, Timeform have produced ...

, gambler and publisher, who founded

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in Halifax * Jeffrey Ennis, Labour MP from 1997 to 2010 for Barnsley East and Mexborough * Leonard Parkin, journalist at ITN in the 1970s and 1980s on the '' News at Ten'' and 5.45 News * Peter Toon, priest and theologian

References

External links

* Secondary schools in the City of Wakefield Academies in the City of Wakefield Educational institutions established in the 1540s 1547 establishments in England

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