The Armthorpe Academy (formerly Armthorpe School) is a

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 ...

located in

Armthorpe Armthorpe is a large suburban village and civil parish in the City of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 12,630, increasing to 14,457 at the 2011 Census. History Et ...

Doncaster Doncaster ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England. Named after the River Don, Yorkshire, River Don, it is the administrative centre of the City of Doncaster metropolitan borough, and is the second largest se ...

, England. It has approximately 770 pupils, serves the former mining village of Armthorpe, and is situated to the east of Doncaster and less than west from Junction 4 of the M18 motorway. The school is run by

Consilium Academies Consilium Academies is a multi-academy trust (MAT) established in March 2015. It operates as a private limited company by guarantee without share capital. The trust is headquartered at Floor 5, 1 City Approach, Albert Street, Eccles, Manchester ...

History

The school was opened in 1842 as a National school, and was converted into an

Academy An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

in 2012.

References

Secondary schools in Doncaster Academies in Doncaster 1842 establishments in England Educational institutions established in 1842 {{Yorkshire-school-stub