Outwood Academy Redcar (formerly Redcar Academy) is a mixed

secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ...

with academy status located in

Redcar Redcar is a seaside town on the Yorkshire Coast in the Redcar and Cleveland unitary authority. It is in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, and is located east of Middlesbrough. The Teesside built-up area's Redcar subdiv ...

North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in Northern England.The Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority areas of City of York, York and North Yorkshire (district), North Yorkshire are in Yorkshire and t ...

. The school had 487 pupils enrolled in September 2021. The current Chief Executive Principal is Julie Slater.

History

Originally Coatham County Modern, the school has also previously been known as Westfields, West Redcar School, and Redcar Community College. Redcar Community College, initially a community school with a specialism in visual and performing arts, was awarded specialist status for Visual and Performing Arts in 2004. In November 2009 it became a

foundation school In England and Wales, a foundation school is a state-funded school in which the school governor, governing body has greater freedom in the running of the school than in Community school (England and Wales), community schools. Foundation schools ...

. In December 2012 the school converted to academy status, becoming Redcar Academy. It retained its specialism in visual and performing arts. In June 2015, an

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inspection found Redcar Academy to "require improvement". In November 2015 the school began receiving support from

Outwood Grange Academies Trust Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT) is a multi-academy trust (MAT) that operates forty schools (twenty-eight secondary and twelve primary) across northern England and the East Midlands. It is an exempt charity, regulated by the Department for ...

(OGAT). The school implemented OGAT's behaviour management policy, style of uniform, and appointed Angela Sweeten—previously of Outwood Academy Ripon—as headteacher. In June 2017, the school announced it would be sponsored by OGAT and reopen as "Outwood Academy Redcar" in September 2017. In October 2017, the school joined Outwood Grange Academies Trust, and became Outwood Academy Redcar.

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* Secondary schools in Redcar and Cleveland Academies in Redcar and Cleveland Redcar

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