Hill View Academy (formerly Almondbury Community School) is a 3–11 mixed

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with academy status in

Almondbury Almondbury () is a village south-east of Huddersfield town centre in the Kirklees district, of West Yorkshire, England. The population of Almondbury in 2001 was 7,368 increasing to 18,346 at the census. The village is close to Castle Hill, ...

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, England. It is part of the Impact Education Multi Academy Trust.

History

In April 2014, the

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Cabinet approved the merger of the Almondbury High School and Language College, the Almondbury Junior School, and Greenside Infant and Nursery School, "as an all-through school for children aged between 3 and 16 years". The three schools were combined following extensive consultation with parents and other community members. Following a 2006

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report that rated the Almondbury High School and Language College as Grade 3 "Satisfactory" overall, the 2009 and 2012 reports gave a rating of Grade 2 "Good". The reports of 2015 and 2017 rated the combined Almondbury Community School as Grade 3 "Requires Improvement" overall. A monitoring visit by Ofsted after the 2015 inspection noted "significant" positive changes in leadership, systems, teaching quality and governorship under a school improvement plan. In 2018, Ofsted visited again concluding that sufficient progress had not been made. A list of issues was published and Kirklees was required to issue a recovery plan. A monitoring visit by Ofsted, confirmed the recovery plan was adequate.

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In 2018, Chair of the school Governors was Gill Goodswen, a former president of the

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(NUT). The secondary department was closed in September 2020, while the primary school department converted to academy status and was renamed Hill View Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Impact Education Multi Academy Trust.

Almondbury controversy

On 25 October 2018, an

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took place on a 15-year-old student at Almondbury Community School; this was widely reported after a video recording of the assault was posted on social media. Prime Minister

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commented, "most people were sickened and angered" by the video clip; she went on to praise the public for the response, and for setting up a crowdfunding appeal for the youngster's family.

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* {{Authority control Academies in Kirklees Primary schools in Kirklees