Spalding Academy (formerly Sir John Gleed School) is a mixed

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and

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in Spalding,

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (), abbreviated ''Lincs'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England. It is bordered by the East Riding of Yorkshire across the Humber estuary to th ...

, England. The Sir John Gleed School was formed in November 2011 as a result of a merger of

Gleed Boys' School Gleed Boys' School was a secondary school for boys aged 11 to 16, in Spalding, Lincolnshire, Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. The school has been merged with Gleed Girls' Technology College to form Sir John Gleed School, a co-educational secon ...

and

Gleed Girls' Technology College Gleed Girls' Technology College was a secondary school on ''Neville Avenue'' in Spalding, Lincolnshire, England. It opened on 28 April 1941 as Spalding The Gleed Senior Council School and comprised boys' and girls departments which from 1946 w ...

, each of which had been judged Good by

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. The two schools were only merged because falling rolls were forecast in this part of Lincolnshire. It was named after Sir John Wilson Gleed, M.A., J.P. (1865–1946) who was chairman of the

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Education Committee and of Holland County Council. He was knighted for political and public service by

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on 13 June 1939. The school was re-named to Spalding Academy, at the beginning of September 2016 its sponsorship changed to South Lincolnshire Academies Trust (SLAT). The school was converted to academy status in January 2013 and was part of the CfBT Schools Trust. The school operated a vocational sixth form. It was placed in "special measures" by

on 10 June 2013, having been judged as being "inadequate" for achievement of pupils, quality of teaching, behaviour and safety of pupils, leadership and management. Its sister school in (SLAT) is Bourne Academy, the lead school in the Trust.

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