Nunthorpe Academy is an 11-18 Specialist Science, Business and Enterprise

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Nunthorpe Nunthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Middlesbrough in North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the historic county of Yorkshire, North Riding. It is near to the village of Great Ayton and formerly part of the Ayton an ...

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, England. Houses are Endeavour, Triumph, Valiant, Victory, and Invincible.

History

In September 2008 the school opened a

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, which shares its design with Outwood Normanby's sixth form building. Hermoine Jackson is the current head of Nunthorpe Sixth Form. Nunthorpe School converted to Academy status on 1 October 2012.

Notable pupils

* Aimee Willmott, Olympic swimmer * Chris Tomlinson, Olympic long jumper and former British long jump record holder * Jonathan Woodgate, former professional footballer who played for several clubs including

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and

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, Television presenter and radio host best known for hosting children's TV *

Mattie Pollock Mattie William Pollock (born 28 September 2001) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender for EFL Championship club Watford. Pollock was the product of the youth academies of Middlesbrough and Leeds United before joinin ...

, professional footballer who plays for

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as a defender *

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and

Awards

A former headteacher of Nunthorpe School, Sir John Rowling, received a knighthood, in 2003, for services to education. Nunthorpe Academy holds the Ofsted rating of "Good" since 2019; this was downgraded from "Outstanding", awarded in 2013.

References

External links

* Secondary schools in Redcar and Cleveland Academies in Redcar and Cleveland {{Yorkshire-school-stub